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The Positive Ageing Week Local Heroes Exhibition launched in Galway City Museum on October 1.

A total of €120,000 from the 2024 Galway Wind Park Community Fund has been distributed to 38 community groups. The distribution was made during a presentation event held on the 24 September in Oughterard, County Galway.

Galway City Museum was recently awarded €15,000 in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme 2024. This funding will be used to further enhance exhibition engagement at the Museum.

A landmark operation, the first of its type worldwide, spearheaded by Professor Sharif Sultan, a renowned master of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Galway Clinic has revolutionised the management of renal artery interventions and aneurysms.

Galway City Museum is delighted to receive a collection of objects from local man Tommy Holohan. These objects belonged to Tommy’s grandmother Nan (Anne) O’Toole, a fishwife, and his grandfather, Michael O’Toole, a Claddagh fisherman, who lived with their family in a cottage at Rope Walk, Claddagh, Galway.

Galway City Museum has been recognized in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2024. The award honours businesses that consistently earn great reviews, placing them among the top 10 per cent of listings around the world on Tripadvisor.

Galway City Museum collect, preserve, and display the material heritage of Galway city. Ideally located beside the Spanish Arch, the museum focuses on sharing Galway’s archaeology, history and sea science through their collections, exhibitions, and events.

Although medieval Galway eventually became an almost independent Anglo-Norman city state, up until 1500 there was always a threat that the warlords of Connemara, north Galway, Roscommon and south Mayo might attack.

The European Parliament through, Together EU, have teamed up with Galway virtual runner John Jennings to encourage you to vote in the European Elections in June. It is a project which encourages the public to get fit in the ‘run up’ (pun intended) to the European Elections.

Magdalena Hylak, Galway Dance Artist-in-Residence, has curated a unique contemporary dance triple bill for The Town Hall Theatre this Saturday, March 23, at 8pm.