Crawford Art Gallery
The Crawford Art Gallery (Irish: Áiléar Crawford) is a public art gallery and museum in the city of Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford, it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006. It is "dedicated to the visual arts, both historic and contemporary", and welcomed 265,438 visitors in 2019. The gallery is named after William Horatio Crawford.
Áiléar Crawford | |
Main entrance on Emmet Place | |
Location within Cork Central | |
| Established | 1850 (as Cork School of Design) 1880 (as Crawford Art School) 1979 (as Crawford Art Gallery) |
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| Location | Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 51.8998°N 8.4733°W |
| Type | Municipal art gallery |
| Key holdings | Greek and Roman sculpture casts (1818) |
| Collection size | c.4,000 works |
| Visitors | 265,438 (2019) |
| Website | crawfordartgallery |
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