Kunstkammer: Robert O’Byrne opens cabinet of art curiosities at Lismore Castle exhibition

The major summer exhibition at Lismore includes work by Dorothy Cross, Alice Maher, and Joseph Walsh 

Robert O’Byrne has curated the Kunstkammer exhibition  at Lismore Castle Arts. 

 Robert O’Byrne is more au fait than most with the concept of the Kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, a room or suite of rooms that houses a collection of artworks, antiquities, relics, natural specimens and other objects of interest. The author of Luggala Days: The Story of a Guinness House and The Irish Country House: A New Vision, among other books, he also hosts the website, theirishaesthete.com, where he blogs on architecture and the arts.

Kunstkammer, the lead exhibition at Lismore Castle Arts in Co Waterford this summer, could hardly have had a better qualified curator.