IMMA. Irish Museum of Modern Art

This guide to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin follows Gordon Lambert, a Jacob's biscuit company executive who spent his career marketing digestives while quietly assembling one of Ireland's most significant private art collections, from Picasso to home-grown Irish painters. By the 1980s it had outgrown his own house, and he brought an unusual proposal to Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Best heard crossing the courtyard of this seventeenth-century former veterans' home on your way into the galleries.