As annual visitor numbers top the million mark, director Caroline Campbell tells Sara Keating about the gallery’s latest grand collaborative exhibition
Art & Design National Gallery: 170 years of feeding our craving for beauty
Picture the scene. Dublin: 1853. While the countryside has been decimated by the recent Famine, the city is thriving. On the grounds of Leinster House, a Great Industrial Exhibition is taking place. Housed inside a magnificent domed structure, there are displays of Irish furniture and craft, ancient artefacts and modern machineries.
To the south of the Central Hall, a gallery has been dedicated to Fine Art Display, the first of the many international World Fairs ...
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