Leitrim Museums are set to benefit from €27,000 in shared funding

Funding of €174,434 is being made available under the Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme 2023, as the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has today announced. 

Strokestown Park and National Famine Museum Roscommon will receive €15,000 for its new exhibition of the only surviving gallery kitchen in Ireland, while The Model, Home of the Niland Collection in Sligo has received €12,000 to the develop Last of the Visioners exhibition that considers how early 20th Century representations of Ireland have come to shape the National and diasporic consciousness. 

Projects funded under this Scheme seek to enhance museums' cultural offerings, encourage greater access to museums, and promote the use of museums as tourism resources in their locality or region.

Sixteen projects are benefitting this year, including the Limerick Museum for Postcards from Limerick exhibition and the Little Museum of Dublin for the Bridges of Dublin exhibition. 

"Our local and regional museums are a vital resource for accessing culture and heritage in towns and villages across the country, and I am very pleased to be able to support their renewal and development through the Regional Museum Exhibition Scheme, said Minister Martin. 

Funding provided under this Scheme allows local and regional bodies to continue to enhance their exhibitions, which improves the cultural offering for their communities and visitors.

"The funding provided under this scheme over the years has allowed these cultural bodies to continue to enhance the presentation of their exhibitions and improve the cultural offering to the communities they serve", the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media added.