Primary School Colouring Competition with the National Museum of Ireland
Detail showing St Matthew applying a scribal knife or scraper to a page and dipping his pen in an inkwell (Cod. Sang. 1395, p. 418). © Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen
National Museum of Ireland
Closing Date: 24 October
The National Museum of Ireland has launched a new Primary School Colouring Competition, inviting pupils across the country to showcase their creativity and imagination.
Inspired by the Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe exhibition, the National Museum of Ireland at Kildare Street have created a range of exciting new colouring sheets. Each of these sheets have been created to mark the opening of the exhibition and have been created in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy and the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen. Some pages are illustrations from The Irish Art of Calligraphy by Timothy O’Neill (Royal Irish Academy, 2024) and reproduced by permission of the Royal Irish Academy.
To celebrate the new exhibition and colouring sheets, the Museum is running a colouring-in competition for Primary school pupils from 3rd – 6th class. Primary schools are invited to download and use the Words on the Wave colouring sheets
How to enter:
Download and print out the Words of the Wave colouring sheets
When you have completed your colouring sheets, send the Museum a picture to educationarch@museum.ie or post a photo online through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #MuseumAtHome.
One winning class will be chosen from each category 3rd/4th & 5th/6th Class.
Winners will receive competition winner bags of National Museum of Ireland resources which will also include copies of The Irish Art of Calligraphy, by Timothy O’Neill.
Museum educators will also hold Virtual sessions with the winning classes to celebrate their winning artwork.
Published
10/9/2025