Museums across Ireland
Museums hold collections of art, history, archaeology and literature, shown in permanent galleries and changing exhibitions. This list covers museums across the island of Ireland. Entry is free at the national museums in Dublin, Mayo and Belfast; most other museums charge admission.
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Chester Beatty
A free museum of the arts of the book at Dublin Castle, holding Sir Alfred Chester Beatty's collection of manuscripts,…
Last verified 2026-07-13
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
A fully interactive museum in the vaults of the CHQ building on Custom House Quay, telling the story of the…
Last verified 2026-07-10
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Ireland's national institution for modern and contemporary art, set in the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham, with exhibitions, a collection, gardens and a wide public programme.
Last verified 2026-07-10
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland
A museum of Irish writing on St Stephen’s Green, a joint venture of UCD and the National Library and named for Molly Bloom.
Last verified 2026-07-10
National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park
Ireland's national famine museum, in the grounds of the Strokestown Park estate in Co. Roscommon.
Last verified 2026-07-27
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
The state’s treasure house of Irish antiquities on Kildare Street — Iron Age bog bodies, the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara…
Last verified 2026-07-10
National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
The National Museum’s folklife branch, and its only home outside Dublin, in the grounds of Turlough Park near Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
Last verified 2026-07-10
National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History (Collins Barracks)
The National Museum’s decorative arts and history branch occupies Collins Barracks on Benburb Street, and the museum uses the barracks…
Last verified 2026-07-11
Seamus Heaney HomePlace
A centre for the poet Seamus Heaney on Main Street in Bellaghy.
Last verified 2026-09-13
The Hunt Museum
The Hunt family's collection of art and antiquities — ten thousand years of it — in Limerick's Georgian Custom House on the Shannon.
Last verified 2026-07-15
The Little Museum of Dublin
A people’s history of twentieth-century Dublin told through donated objects, in a Georgian townhouse on St Stephen’s Green and seen by guided tour every 45 minutes.
Last verified 2026-07-10
Tower Museum
Derry's local history museum inside the city walls at Union Hall Place.
Last verified 2026-07-27
Ulster Museum
Northern Ireland's national museum on Stranmillis Road, beside the Botanic Gardens, free to walk into six days a week.
Last verified 2026-09-13