Albert Bender: A Dubliner’s Collection of Asian Art

Audrey Whitty discusses highlights from the National Museum’s principal long-term exhibition, beginning this winter, which focuses on the rare Asian objects d’art donated by philanthropist Albert Bender in the early 1930s.


Albert Bender: A Dubliner’s Collection of Asian Art

This month a major exhibition of the Asian art collection given by one of the first benefactors to the Irish State, Albert M Bender (1866-1941) opened at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. This long-term exhibition has been several years in planning and showcases for the first time since the 1970s the Museum’s most important Asian art collection

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