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Exploring cultural diversity and identity at the Chester Beatty Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2018

Fionnuala Croke
Fionnuala Croke*
Affiliation:
Director, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, Ireland Email: fcroke@cbl.ie
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Abstract

Over the past 20 years, the Chester Beatty Library has undergone a transformation in how it presents its collections. Unique among Irish museums in its focus on global artistic heritage, it has consciously positioned itself as a centre for intercultural engagement and sought to address questions around diversity and national identity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 137 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2018 

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References

1. When Beatty died in 1968, the collection passed to the care of a trust for the benefit of the nation and the Library continued its work, receiving around 5–8,000 visitors a year in the Shrewsbury Road location.

2. President Michael D. Higgins, speech delivered in the Chester Beatty Library on 14 April 2016 to inaugurate the exhibition ‘Lapis and Gold: the story of the Ruzbihan Qur'an’ (15 April – 28 August 2016): http://www.president.ie/en/media-library/Speeches/speech-by-president-michael-d.-higgins-at-the-opening-of-the-ruzbihan-quran Accessed 13 March 2018.

3. This work is highlighted in the Report on the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) Working Group on The role of public arts and cultural institutions in the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, published 2014: http://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/culture/library/reports/201405-omc-diversity-dialogue_en.pdf Accessed 13 March 2018.

4. Ways of Seeing I and II were produced in collaboration with the Inclusion and Diversity Services of Northern Ireland in 2015. Ways of Seeing I was produced to foster language proficiency amongst migrant students in Irish schools: http://www.cbl.ie/getdoc/2f4fe292-76d9-49f0-81bd-4cdf22bae69d/Ways-of-Seeing-I.aspx Accessed 13 March 2018. Ways of Seeing II explores world faiths as represented in the collections of the Chester Beatty and Ulster Museum, aimed at teachers for use both in the classroom and the museum: http://www.cbl.ie/getdoc/a8834abb-face-47b4-b2d5-507ab2c55f72/Ways-of-Seeing-II.aspx Accessed 13 March 2018.

5. Craik, Jennifer, Davis, Glyn and Sunderland, Naomi, ‘Cultural policy and national identity’ in The Future of Governance: Policy Choices, ed. Keating, Michael et al. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 200) 179Google Scholar.