The display of art unrestricted by the type of media or platform of expression begins even before one enters the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). On a patch of grass stands the display by Michael Warren named Beneath the Bow, a vertical column patchwork of Irish Oak and Corten steel balanced at an impossible angle on a single edge of metal. The smoothened bronze of the Snowman, left just barely unpolished to reveal individual facets in the domed structure is a work by Gary Hume to reflect temporary childish revelry immortalized in metal.

The outdoor installations will gradually lead you indoors where you can take a tour around the linoleum or wood paneled galleries proudly displaying the National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Even the rooms are painted in pure white to place emphasis upon each of the 3,500 works of art forming the permanent collection. The lives and works of Picasso, Louis le Brocquy and Kathy Prendergrass as well as countless other legends, both Irish and International who have left their mark in the modern art scene, are carefully preserved under tinted lights. 2,000 and more printed works by Durer, Rembrandt and more make up the Madden Arnholz Collection. Marvel at unusual prints threaded on silk and carved blocks of wood that made up printing blocks of old. At the IMMA, the more you see, the more you discover.