New director of Hunt Museum appointed

THE Board of the Hunt Museum has announced that Virginia Teehan has been appointed as the new director of the Limerick-based museum.

The Hunt Museum is home to one of Ireland’s greatest private collections of art and antiquities dating from Neolithic to twentieth century, including works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats.

A professional archivist by training, Ms Teehan is director of Heritage and Visual Arts at University College Cork and will take up her new position in June. She was appointed to the Heritage Council in 2000 by former Arts Minister Silé de Valera and has chaired the Council’s Museums and Archives Committee.