Discover Your National Library
Opens 20 January 2010
About the exhibition:
The National Library's new exhibition, Discover Your National Library , invites visitors to come behind the scenes and explore the Library's rich and varied collections and to meet the staff who care for them. Using the exhibition's innovative technology, visitors can view highlights from the Library's collections and examine individual items in extremely close detail.
Deed signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, 1588 Among the artefacts currently on view (exhibition items will change three times a year) are rare manuscripts such as the fourteenth-century Book of Magauran; a 1588 deed signed by Sir Walter Raleigh; a lottery ticket from 1795, and a letter from Éamonn Ceannt to his wife Áine O'Brennan, written just a few hours before his execution in 1916. Thousands of other digital items await discovery by visitors on the exhibition's cutting-edge 'Discovery' touch tables. Visitors can sample this technology from their own homes by following this link (downloading free Silverlight software may be required):
Launch the Online Discover Exhibition (this will open a new window)
You can also read about the exhibition in Issue 38 of the NLI News. Or see our press release.
Discover your National Library is located in 2/3 Kildare Street, approximately 100m down the street from the main Library building.
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