The Model

The town's main contemporary art gallery and home of the Niland Collection, a holding of 19th and 20th century Irish painting strong on the work of Jack B. Yeats — the poet's brother and one of the country's most important painters. The 19th-century model school building was renovated in the 2000s to add a cinema, performance space, and large temporary exhibition halls.

Programmes change frequently and combine the permanent collection with contemporary international work. Free entry. Closed Mondays.

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The gallery holds the Niland Collection — one of the most important municipal art collections in Ireland, with around 350 works including Jack B. Yeats's Sligo paintings. Many were donated by Nora Niland, the town's librarian, who assembled the collection by persuasion and small grants between 1958 and the early 1980s.