3rd - 24th November, 2024
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November Tours at Collins Barracks
Warm up your Irish history in the Museum this November with our range of free public tours!
Exhibitions
Temporary Exhibition
Capturing Community: Celebrating Creativity, Connecting Cultures
View exhibitionTracy O’Brien is a photographer and socially engaged artist, who graduated from TU Dublin with a BA in Photography and completed an MA in Socially Engaged Art at NCAD.
Pictured is a camogie dress worn by Maeve Gilroy in the 1960s. She was wearing this dress when she won her second All-Ireland Senior camogie title with Antrim in 1967.
Non-Conformist Chair, Eileen Gray
A ‘Spoon Garden’ inspired by vegetable gardens as her response to Covid-19, with each silver spoon displayed in a wooden block, with a cut out centre.
Visitor Information
Free Admission to all our museums
Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday:
10am-5pm
Sunday - Monday:
1pm-5pm
Upcoming Events
Engage and Learn
Discover a range of learning resources for at home or in the classroom.
Museum in the Classroom
Capture the imagination of your students and make learning fun!
Find out moreMuseum at Home
Discover our online family resources inspired by the collections at the Museum.
Find out moreCollections pertaining to the decorative arts and history are maintained by curators in the Art and Industrial Division.
Their role is to collect, manage, and preserve Ireland’s heritage in the decorative and applied arts, as well as its political, economic, military and social history.
The primary aim is to promote a wider understanding of Ireland’s cultural heritage and to highlight the country’s contribution to European decorative arts and in a broader international context.
Did you know?
When this robe was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1932 it was believed to be a Lama Priest robe dating to the reign of Kangxi (1662-1722), and associated with the Abbot of the main Tibetan Buddhist temple in China, the YongHeGong in Beijing.
View artefact Show me another artefact factDecorative Arts & History
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