Museums in Ireland

By theme

How Ireland’s museums split across the six broad themes. Museums catalogued simply as “a museum”, with no narrower type recorded, fall under General.

A sample of museums

A selection of 60 of Ireland’s 135 museums, alphabetically. Open the map to explore them all by location.

14 Henrietta Street · Allihies Copper Mine Museum · An Post Museum · Arigna Mining Experience · Arklow Maritime Museum · Bonane Heritage Park · Butler Gallery · Caherciveen Heritage Centre · Carlow County Museum · Casino Model Railway Museum · Castlerea Railway Museum · Castletown House · Cavan County Museum · Chester Beatty Library · Clare Heritage Centre · Clare Museum · Computing and Communications Museum of Ireland · Connemara Heritage and History Centre · Connemara Railway · Cork Butter Museum · Cork City Gaol · Cork Public Museum · County Carlow Military Museum · County Museum Dundalk · Craggaunowen · Crawford Art Gallery · Derrynane House · Doagh Famine Village · Donegal County Museum · Donegal Railway Heritage Centre · Douglas Hyde Gallery · Dublin Writers Museum · Dublinia · Dunbrody · EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum · Fintown railway station · Fort Dunree · Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum · Gaelic Athletic Association museum · Gallery of Photography · Galway City Museum · Garda Museum · Glasnevin Cemetery Museum · Glebe Gallery · Glengowla Mines · Guinness Storehouse · Hall of the Red Earl · Highlanes Gallery · Hugh Lane Gallery · Hunt Museum · Imaginosity: Dublin Children's Museum · Inishowen Maritime Museum and Planetarium · Irish Agricultural Museum · Irish Architectural Archive · Irish Film Archive · Irish Jewish Museum · Irish Museum of Modern Art · Irish Museum of Time · Irish National Heritage Park · Irish Queer Archive