museums ireland

The Dublin Civic Museum has closed for refurbishment until further notice.

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A traditional museum, with emphasis on the city's maritime and riverine connections. Displays also include miscellaneous artefacts which help stimulate a Victorian atmosphere. Temporary exhibitions are regularly displayed....

The Ulster American Folk Park is an outdoor museum of emigration history. Features include a thatched house, barns, log cabins and craft workshops. These depict emigrant life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Ship and Dockside Gallery links the old world and the new world exhibits.
Special highlights include:
The re-enactment of an American wake
An American frontier wedding
A storytelling festival
A Hallowe'en festival...

The last remaining light ship, exhibits include models, paintings and records....

The Kerry Museum and the Geraldine Experience can be found in Tralee’s Ashe Memorial Hall, located at the end of Denny Street. As one of the towns top tourist attractions, the museum is always busy making the experience that little bit more authentic as all the people around you become as engrossed in 15th century living as you.
Follow the museums chronological route where you will meet Kerry’s first settlers in the Late Mesolithic site at Ferriter’s Cove on the Dingle Peninsula. Her...

The only Irish Standard Gauge 1600mm (5'3'') working Railway Museum. The Terminus 150 metres from St Patrick's Heritage Centre. Housing steam and diesel locomotives, century old carriages, rebuilt signal cabin and engine shed. The railway carries passengers over 1m and is currently being extended to an eventual total of about 11km, both southwards to Ballydugan and northwards across the marshes and the River Quoile to the tranquil 12th century ruins of Inch Abbey.

Ask about the train...

Come and rest a while…

You will have the possibility of listening and being listened to, on your own or with others, in the beautiful setting of La Verna....

On the left hand side of the bridge as you walk down Shop Street in Tuam is an old corn mill which has now become Tuam's Mill Museum. This undershot mill traces its origin to the 17th century.

Today the mill wheel still turns and the machinery in the mill itself is operational. Inside the miller's house one can see miniature examples of four types of mill in operation. The tour of the mill includes a slide show on the history of Tuam and its surrounding areas. The tourist office is also...

This very small museum contains memento's from Irish history which include a 1782 Irish Volunteers' flag and Land Banners. Amongst other exhibits are a door from a ship of the Spanish Armada and the pen used by Neville Chamberlain and Eamonn De Valera to sign the 1938 agreement allowing Ireland regain ports held by Britain....