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Access-all-areas visits to inspiring collections in museums and galleries across the UK.

Access-all-areas visits to inspiring collections in museums and galleries across the UK. A personal guided tour of the incredible, eclectic and moving treasures in their keeping.

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Emma Dabiri takes us around the world through artworks at Ulster Museum.

Emma Dabiri uses artworks held in the Ulster Museum in Belfast to explore a different way of seeing the world – through the eyes of artists.

Emma Dabiri admits that travel is in her blood. Now, as leaving the country becomes increasingly fraught in the global pandemic, she finds a new way of seeing the world through selected artworks at Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland's capital, Belfast. 

From the portraiture of Pompeo Batoni to the etchings of Giovanni Piranesi, her tour takes in the splendour of Rome as well as Sri Lanka, Morocco, Mexico and even Antarctica. She examines how artists brought to the UK their vision of the world and metaphorically transported art lovers across continents before the invention of the jet engine. 

The Dublin born social historian takes us around the gallery highlighting how depictions of far flung landscapes and cultures were sometimes overly romanticised or blatantly sexualised. And how, for many, travel in previous centuries was less about tourism and more about emigration, saying goodbye to loved ones probably forever. While our passports remain largely unused, let artists show you their world beyond our shores.


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Four special access visits to the collections of museums and galleries across the UK.

Four special access visits to the collections of museums and galleries across the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Part of the BBC's #MuseumPassion season.

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