{"id":85,"date":"2016-11-17T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:11:43","slug":"exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"85\" class=\"elementor elementor-85\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47cbaeb e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-repeater-item-default_padding elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"47cbaeb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ang_container_spacing_size&quot;:&quot;default_padding&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42832f4a elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42832f4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>State-Of-The-Art New Home for Monaghan County Museum<\/h3><h4>Award-Winning Museum Re-Opens at Brand-New \u20ac22m Peace Campus<\/h4><h4>Major New Exhibition, <em>Bordering Realities \u2013 Monaghan People and Stories<\/em> Explores Evolving Narrative of Life on The Border<\/h4><p>Monaghan County Museum has a new home at the state-of-the-art Peace Campus in Monaghan Town following a full year\u2019s closure, which involved the painstaking logging, categorising and relocation of over 50,000 artefacts accumulated over the Museum\u2019s 50-year history.<\/p><p>To coincide with the move, a major new exhibition has been unveiled &#8211; <em>Bordering Realities \u2013 Monaghan People and Stories<\/em> &#8211; heralding a new era at the Museum.<\/p><p>\u201cOver the last five years we have worked to develop the story which became <em>Bordering Realities -Monaghan People and Stories<\/em>, a major new exhibition exploring the idea of borders in our lives, to coincide with the move to our new home at the Peace Campus,\u201dsaid Curator Liam Bradley.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2285\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1.jpg\" alt=\"museum_gallery1\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1-648x433.jpg 648w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery1-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p><p>\u201cThe story of lines is rooted in the bedrock of our community. These lines reflect the bordering realities of life in this county. Over time those lines have bent and curved in response to changes in society and in doing so have created a beautiful mosaic of the cultural diversity and historical richness that is county Monaghan. As we open to the public once again at our new home in the Peace Campus in our 50<sup>th<\/sup> year of serving the people of Monaghan we invite everyone to put their foot on the line and explore the question: Do our borders define us or do we define our borders?\u201d Bradley concluded.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2286\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Gallery2\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2-648x433.jpg 648w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery2-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p><p>Highlights of the new exhibition, include:<\/p><ul><li>The Story of the Ulster Scots \u2013 working with cross-borders partners in the Ulster Scots Agency as well as organisations representing the Ulster Scots or Scots Irish story in the US, a dedicated space chronicles the journey of sharing cultural ideas and identities.<\/li><li>Video interviews with well-known Monaghan people, including Caitriona Balfe, Barry McGuigan, Ardal O\u2019Hanlon and Tommy Bowe, in which they each speak candidly about their own unique, personal experience of growing up on the border.<\/li><li>\u2018Place\u2019, a short film by award-winning filmmaker, Luke Leslie, commissioned especially for the exhibition &#8211; a visual journey which explores the border region around County Monaghan.<\/li><\/ul><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2287\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Gallery3\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3-648x433.jpg 648w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery3-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2288\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Gallery 4\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34.jpg 900w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34-648x433.jpg 648w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/museum_gallery34-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p><p>Visitors can also expect to see key artefacts of local and national significance, including the Cross of Clogher, approximately 500 years old and one of the most famous pieces of Medieval Irish Art in existence; and the fully restored door to Rossmore Castle, one of the last remaining pieces of Rossmore Castle, which was destroyed by fire and demolished eventually in 1974.<\/p><p 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