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Address:
O'Rahilly Building, Cork
Opening Hours:
No informations
Contact:
Olive O'Flaherty, Department of Classics
o.oflaherty@ucc.ie
Phone: +353/ 21 4902359
Fax: +353/ 21 4903277
Links:
Plaster Collection of the University College Cork
University College Cork
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Description:
The rare collection of Classical casts in University College, Cork, was acquired mainly from the British Museum by the College's first Professor Latin, Bunnell Lewis (1824-1908).
The casts continued to be exhibited in the West Wing, even though the President had in 1873 appealed to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, for funds to erect a new Museum Building in which they might be fittingly housed, together with the collections from the Museum of Natural History, Anatomy and Pathology. They were still in the West Wing in 1956. Then c.1973, during a period of reconstruction which introduced the mezzanine floor in that Wing, they were removed to a store-room in the Maltings. Either then or later some were hung in the student restaurant. When it was discovered that those in the Maltings were deteriorating (apparently suffering some wilful injury) they were removed to the Fota store-room where a series of wooden frames was prepared for their reception
The surviving collection of about 80 pieces includes casts of reliefs, free-standing statues and architectural mouldings, their originals coming from various parts of the ancient world and ranging in date from c. 500 B.C. to c. A.D. 200.
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