Ulysses, A Treasure Hunt

Hunt down each episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses in this fun – and beautiful – new exhibition for all ages. In Suzanne Freeman’s Ulysses, a Treasure Hunt, each episode of the novel is depicted in a series of small wooden cases dotted around the museum.

Be sure to find each one and read about it in the free, accompanying booklet! Begin your Ulysses, a Treasure Hunt adventure to uncover many of the book’s hidden gems.

Freeman’s exhibition offers an artist’s guiding hand through one of the most important but least read works of literature of the last 100 years. “Ulysses is a novel that makes you work, but the pay-off is immense,” says Freeman.

“It’s densely layered with meaning, symbolism and humour; at once pedestrian, extraordinary, poignant, heroic and hilarious,” she says. “I feel Joyce designed Ulysses to work as much like a puzzle as a novel, making the text just sufficiently intelligible to engage the reader’s interest on first read, and tempt them into further engagement.”