Support thousands of years of Irish and global history and culture.
The Hunt Museum houses one of Ireland’s greatest private collections, with objects dating from the Neolithic period right up until modern times.
As a charity, the Museum relies on donations. These support the care, preservation and display of the collection as well as our education and community outreach projects.
How your money can help:
Caring for the collection.
Conserving our thousands of objects is an ongoing and vital part of the Museum’s work and donations help to safeguard the collection for future generations. For instance, The Hunt Museum is in the process of raising money to fund the conservation of garments in the Sybil Connolly Archive.
Bringing the collection to more people.
The Hunt Museum is involved in several Community Engagement projects and continuously strives to make our building and our collection accessible to all.
Education
In addition to welcoming schools for guided tours and workshops, we also develop online resources for schools to use in the classroom.
Volunteers and Interns.
Our beautiful Museum in a Garden is maintained by hardworking volunteers. The local community and volunteers with mental health issues together with professionals are maintaining the garden to provide a communal vibrant green space for everyone.
The Hunt Museum also provides internship opportunities for those looking to develop their knowledge of the museum world.
New visually impaired co-creator on the project, Geraldine Conway, from Kilmallock, explores an object from the Hunt Museum Collection.
Photograph by Eamon Ward
Kirby Group Engineers installing the Dodecahedron, June 2023
Further information on donations that qualify for tax relief
The following donations to approved bodies qualify for the tax relief:
- a minimum donation of €250
- a maximum donation of €1,000,000 in any one year.
Relief will be restricted to 10% of the donor’s annual income if there is a connection between the donor and the approved body.
An approved body may claim 31% tax relief on your donation. They receive the grossed-up amount, net of tax deducted at the specified rate.
Example
If you make a donation of €250, the Hunt Museum is deemed to have received a gross donation. The gross donation is calculated as follows:
€250/(100%-31%)=€362.32. The approved body can claim a refund of €112.32 which is €362.32×31%.
The repayment to an approved body cannot exceed the amount of tax that the donor has paid for that year. The donor is not allowed repayment of any tax that has been repaid to the approved body.
The donation must:
- be in the form of money or designated securities (quoted shares and debentures) or a combination of both
- not be repayable to the donor
- not benefit the donor or anyone connected with the donor
- not be a condition or connected with any arrangement involved in obtaining a property other than by way of a gift from the donor to the approved body.