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| Our own James Reynolds, placing a medieval pot - most like a storage vessel, possibly for grain, into one of our brand new showcases! |
Galway City Manager, Mr. Joe O'Neill, has today welcomed the delivery of 13 new high quality showcases from specialist UK company Click Netherfield to Galway City Museum, on foot of a grant received from the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism, marking this as yet another major step in the Museum's redevelopment programme.
The cases will occupy the ground floor of the Museum and are specially built to hold valuable artefacts of a delicate nature; such as those that relate to prehistoric and medieval Galway, which are coming on loan from the National Museum of Ireland.
According to Mr. O’Neill:
“These showcases will help to transform the Museum, and bring Galway's prehistoric and medieval past alive. We are very grateful to the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism for a significant grant which allowed us to purchase these cases. The redevelopment of the Museum will be a major boost to Galway – something which is extremely welcome at this time.”
Showcases such as these are very much specialist items and conform to stringent standards for the storage and presentation of priceless artefacts. They are securely alarmed and the climate within the case can be controlled to suit the object being stored within.
Amongst the objects earmarked for these showcases are: flint, axeheads and swords excavated from the River Corrib in the early 1980s which date back to prehistoric times, as wine bottles, glass and other objects relating to Galway's medieval past, which were excavated in the City Centre in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of these finds serve to highlight Galway's trading history during a time when the 'Tribes of Galway' were very much in the ascendancy.
