Explore our free digital guide on Bloomberg Connects to enhance your visit
Photo Museum Ireland is now part of Bloomberg Connects, a free digital platform used by leading museums and galleries worldwide.
Through the app, you can explore our exhibitions both in the gallery and from anywhere in the world. It offers a flexible way to engage with photography, in the gallery or from anywhere in the world.
Our digital guide brings together audio tours, artist perspectives, curatorial context and detailed imagery, opening up new ways into the work. It allows you to hear directly from artists, understand how exhibitions are shaped, and spend longer with the details that matter.
Importantly, it also supports a more accessible experience. Built-in features such as audio, captions, transcripts, zoom and adjustable text allow visitors to engage with our exhibitions in ways that suit their needs.
This forms part of our ongoing work to make photography more accessible, inclusive and widely understood by expanding how audiences connect with contemporary photography in Ireland and worldwide.
Download Bloomberg Connects for free via the App Store or Google Play, or access it on-site using our free visitor WiFi.
Please remember to bring your own headphones on your visit in order to use the audio content.
Find our Gallery tours on the Bloomberg Connects. For visitors with visual impairments, audio-descriptions of selected Collection works are also available and can be accessed via QR codes in the galleries. You can download the Bloomberg Connects app on your phone’s app store and Google Play, either before your visit or via the Museum’s free WiFi.
Gallery Tours
Shane Hynan: Beneath | Beofhód
In this audio journey, you will explore the stories, histories and landscapes behind Shane Hynan’s Beneath | Beofhód, a decade-long photographic project examining Ireland’s peatlands and the communities connected to them.
As you move through the exhibition, you will encounter photographs, videos and personal reflections that reveal the complex relationship between people and boglands. From the legacy of industrial peat harvesting and generations of turf cutting, to ecological restoration projects and the emergence of renewable energy infrastructure, the work traces a landscape in transition.
Through Hynan’s lens, peatlands emerge as places layered with memory, identity and change. Along the way, you will hear stories of local communities, cultural traditions, environmental challenges and the enduring connections between people and the land beneath their feet.
World Unseen
In this audio journey, you will encounter the extraordinary stories behind Canon: World Unseen, an exhibition that transforms photography into a multisensory experience. As you move through Photo Museum Ireland’s galleries, you will meet photographers, subjects, and specialists whose images can be explored not only through sight, but through touch, sound, and emotion.
Across the exhibition, you will discover powerful works — from intimate moments of pregnancy captured through ultrasound, to the resilience of Paralympic athletes, to deep connections between humans and the natural world. Each photograph is accompanied by rich storytelling, revealing the personal histories, global contexts, and technological innovations that make these images possible.
About
The Bloomberg Connects app is a free digital guide to cultural organisations around the world that makes it easy to access and engage with arts and culture from mobile devices, anytime, anywhere. The app offers information about current exhibitions at a portfolio of over 150 participating cultural partners through dynamic content tailored to each organisation. Participating collections currently include botanical gardens, performance venues, outdoor sculpture parks, and world-class museums. Features include expert commentary, video highlights, pinch-and-zoom capability and exhibition maps. The app can be downloaded for free via Google Play or the App Store.
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