Carlow County Museum, Regional history museum in Carlow, Ireland.
Carlow County Museum is housed in the former Presentation Convent on College Street, sharing the building with the County Library and Archives. It has four exhibition rooms with permanent and temporary displays covering the archaeology, history, social history and folk life of County Carlow. The building reopened as a museum in 2012, the last to open in a new cultural quarter.
The collection started in 1973 as an initiative by the Carlow Historical Society, but only moved to its current home in 2012. Relocating to the former convent provided a permanent building and allowed the growing collection to be displayed more fully.
The museum's name in Irish is Músaem Chontae Cheatharlach. Its 19th-century pulpit from Carlow Cathedral was chosen for The Irish Times series "A History of Ireland in 100 Objects". A stained glass panel by Peadar Lamb, made for the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, shows Carlow figures and their part in the 1916 Rising.
The museum shares the former Presentation Convent building on College Street with the County Library and Archives, so the same address serves all three. The building was the last to open in the town's new cultural quarter in 2012. It is operated by Carlow Town and County Councils with the Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society.
The 19th-century pulpit from Carlow Cathedral is one of the museum's best-known pieces and was chosen for The Irish Times series "A History of Ireland in 100 Objects". The museum also holds the 1594 grave effigy of Robert Hartpole, Constable of Carlow Castle and High Sheriff of Carlow.
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