museums ireland

This is a local museum that hold artefacts that were used in every day farming life, many years ago....

The Sligo Yeats Society was founded in 1958, and is housed within the Yeats Memorial Building in Sligo town. Features include a number of exhibitions on the life and times of WB Yeats, the Sligo Art Gallery and the Yeats River Café....

The museum is housed in the former railway station, near the historic town walls. It specialises in transport items but also contains thousands of exhibits from folk and farm life. The grounds include a cafe, picnic facilities, toilets, provision for the disabled, a well equipped playground and ample free parking.

Every Sunday throughout the year there is a collectors market and car boot sale, where one can find anything from a needle to an anchor on offer....

Lambert Puppet Theatre holds one performance every Saturday and Sunday which starts at 15.30 and is opened to the public.
The Theatre seats up to 300 people. Every month there is a new show.

Saturday shows are suitable for children age four and up as well as adults. During the months of May and June the Theatre presents a performance every day.
The performances are taken from the Lambert Puppet Theatre large repertoire on the day so that the show best matches the interests of the...

This visitor centre is located where Eamonn de Valera, former President of Ireland, grew up. The cottage in which he lived is now preserved and the national school he attended houses a museum dedicated to his memory. Audio-visual presentations relate stories about Bruree and the de Valera association. Bookings outside the listed opening hours can be made by prior arrangement.The picturesque village of Bruree is located on the banks of the River Maigue.

The Heritage Centre uses audio visua...

Aircraft on display at this former US airbase include a Wildcat, Sea Hawk, Buccaneer, and the amphibian Sea Hawker. Unique collection of photographs, documents and artefacts in wartime buildings. Reference library. Facilities include a small teashop, public telephone and toilets. Open Sat 1-6 pm or by arrangement....

Operated by the Old Carlow Society, the museum displays in a series of shop layouts, aspects of early 20th & 19th century domestic and commercial life in the Carlow area....

Artifacts to do with island life; churn, dressers with jugs, cradle, settlebed, dress of islanders, baskets for carrying nets, patterns for making curraghs, part of curraghs; old stone from medieval castle; old photographs and manuscripts....

The Museum traces the history of a Dublin merchant family over the past 175 years.
The story of the family unfolds from the ruins of Findlater Castle, Scotland, to a friendship with the poet, Robert Burns and through a period of historic achievement in Dublin. All the enterprises that bore the Findlater imprint are faithfully recorded.

The museum is just five minutes from Saint Stephen's Green and Grafton Street and is located within the vast granite and brick vaults under the old Ha...

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....