Port of Cork donates significant maritime art collection to Crawford Gallery
The donation by the Port of Cork to the Crawford Art Gallery includes Naval Steam Frigate Moored Off Queenstown, by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson.
The collection of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has been further boosted by the donation of maritime artworks and historical pieces from the Port of Cork Company. As well as significant paintings of the port and its surrounds through the ages, the donation also includes a Ship’s Register from the Cork Harbour Commissioners, recording the visit of the Titanic, and mentioning the Lusitania.
The Port of Cork organisation, which is currently housed in the city's Custom House, is expected to move to Ringaskiddy as part of the major development of facilities closer to the mouth of the harbour. Plans have already been approved for the creation of a 34-storey hotel – potentially Ireland's tallest building – at the site of the Custom House, albeit with conditions around the preservation of aspects of the original building.
