The Irish Museum of Modern Art which is located in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, opened to the public in 1991. Its remit is to provide the Irish public with access to the best Irish and international visual art through exhibition, collection and education programmes. The aim is to foster within society an awareness, understanding and participation in the visual arts through structures and programmes which are both innovative and inclusive.
The Irish Museum of Modern Art presents up to 20 temporary exhibitions a year with selections of work from the permanent collection also regularly on show. Exhibitions from the museum regularly go on tour to other galleries and art centres throughout the country; 100,000 people attended the museum in its first year of operation in 1991 while the number of visitors in 1996 has grown to over 330,000.