Chester Beatty

The Chester Beatty museum is the pre-eminent Irish institution promoting the appreciation and understanding of world cultures and the engagement with the peoples whose cultures are represented in our Collections. The Library contains some of the finest treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world, bequeathed to the Irish people and entrusted to the care of the State by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968), a successful American mining engineer, collector and philanthropist.