Find the budding artist in your family by visiting the "Christmas Family Art Holiday" at the National Gallery in Merrion Square from Sunday, December 28th to Tuesday, December 30th at 3pm. There will be art workshops, guided tours and music performances. If you can't make it on those days, but Christmas is wearing thin, there is "supervised family time" at 3pm daily between January 1st and 6th. Admission to all these activities is free.
Two exhibitions worth seeing over the Christmas and New Year period are Northern Stars and Southern Lights: the Golden Age of Finnish Art 1870-1920 and Hugh Douglas Hamilton: a Life in Pictures, both of which run until February, and the Turner watercolours are on show throughout January in the Print Gallery. For more details, tel: 01-6615133 or see www.nationalgallery.ie.