Visual Art: Accessible Events at The National Gallery in December and January

There are several accessible events coming up at the National Gallery in December 2024 and January 2025.

Audio Described Tour
Thursday 19 December 6pm to 7pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland
Visitors will be guided through key parts of the Gallery building and focus on several highlights on display incorporating audio description and discussion. Devised specifically to enrich the experience of visitors with a visual impairment to the Gallery.

Tour of Turner’s Watercolours for people who have a hearing impairment or are Hard of Hearing
Thursday 2 January 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

This free tour, exploring the exhibition Turner’s Watercolours: Scotland’s Vaughan Bequest, is for individuals who are hard of hearing or have hearing impairments. This tour is fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities, and takes place at 5.30pm on the first Thursday of every month.

ISL Tour of Turner’s Watercolours
Thursday 9 January 6pm to 7pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s Irish Sign Language tour guides for a look at highlights from the Gallery’s national collection and the Turner’s Watercolours: Scotland’s Vaughan Bequest exhibition.

As the Gallery endeavours to make activities and events accessible to the deaf community, they wish to welcome members of the ISL community to the Gallery. This tour is exclusively in Irish Sign Language and will not have any translation available. An ISL tour of the permanent collection or other temporary exhibitions place at 6pm on the second Thursday of the month.

Audio Described Tour of Turner’s Watercolours
Thursday 16 January 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s highly trained tour guides for an audio described exploration of highlights from the Gallery’s national collection and the Turner’s Watercolours: Scotland’s Vaughan Bequest exhibition. Visitors will be guided through key parts of the Gallery building and focus on several highlights on display incorporating audio description and discussion.

Please note all public tours are fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities.

Read the National Gallery’s visitor guide for details of what to expect on your visit to the Gallery.

Image credits

Header image – National Gallery of Ireland. Photographer: Jack Caffrey, The Pimlico Project, 2018.

Grid images – J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851), Venice from the Lagoon, 1840. National Galleries of Scotland. Henry Vaughan Bequest 1900.

Image credit: The National Gallery. J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851), Heidelberg, 1846. National Galleries of Scotland. Henry Vaughan Bequest 1900.

National Gallery of Ireland. Photographer: Jack Caffrey, The Pimlico Project, 2018.