Description: With all the talk of recession and economic doom and gloom, isn’t it great that you can still enjoy an abundance of visual riches at ‘not just the best museum in Ireland, but one of the best in Europe’ and isn’t it even better that it is all absolutely free?
Why not while away an hour or two visiting our recently opened Arts of the Book exhibition.
Described by visitors as ‘spellbinding’ and ‘extraordinary’, the Chester Beatty's award winning exhibitions will take your breath away. Arts of the Book includes the world famous Chester Beatty Love Poems (c.1160 BC), Egyptian Books of the Dead and beautifully illuminated medieval European manuscripts, fine European printed books, as well as Old Master prints.
This exhibition also explores the richness of the Islamic manuscript tradition - illustrations and illuminations, calligraphy, and exquisite bindings from across the Middle East and India are on display. Highlights from East Asia include one of the finest collections of Chinese jade books in the world, Japanese picture-scrolls depicting fables and legends, and deluxe woodblock prints. Audio-visual programmes complement the exhibition, helping the visitor to learn more about the arts of the book throughout the world.
The Sacred Traditions exhibition exhibits the sacred texts, illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings from the great religions and systems of belief represented in the collections - Christianity, Islam and Buddhism with smaller displays on Confucianism, Daoism, Sikhism and Jainism. The Biblical Papyri, the remarkable collection of Qur'an manuscripts and scrolls and books of Buddhist thought provide the focus for the displays.
So why not join the hundreds of thousands of visitors who have already discovered one of Ireland’s ‘hidden gems’?
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Described by visitors as ‘spellbinding’ and ‘extraordinary’, the Chester Beatty's award winning exhibitions will take your breath away. Arts of the Book includes the world famous Chester Beatty Love Poems (c.1160 BC), Egyptian Books of the Dead and beautifully illuminated medieval European manuscripts, fine European printed books, as well as Old Master prints. 
This exhibition also explores the richness of the Islamic manuscript tradition - illustrations and illuminations, calligraphy, and exquisite bindings from across the Middle East and India are on display. Highlights from East Asia include one of the finest collections of Chinese jade books in the world, Japanese picture-scrolls depicting fables and legends, and deluxe woodblock prints. Audio-visual programmes complement the exhibition, helping the visitor to learn more about the arts of the book throughout the world.
The Sacred Traditions exhibition exhibits the sacred texts, illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings from the great religions and systems of belief represented in the collections - Christianity, Islam and Buddhism with smaller displays on Confucianism, Daoism, Sikhism and Jainism. The Biblical Papyri, the remarkable collection of Qur'an manuscripts and scrolls and books of Buddhist thought provide the focus for the displays.
