Comments on: Exploring the Museums of Dublin, Ireland https://www.expatify.com/ireland/exploring-the-museums-of-dublin-ireland.html Travel & Expat Lifestyle Magazine Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Sinéad ní Shuinéar https://www.expatify.com/ireland/exploring-the-museums-of-dublin-ireland.html/comment-page-1#comment-8370 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:23:40 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=4073#comment-8370 The National Museum of Ireland copmprises four separate museums. The one in the photograph is Archaeology and History, located on Klldare Street in the city centre. Just behind it is Natural History, which recently reopened. Decorative Arts are housed in Collins Barracks, on the river. The Museum of Country Life isn’t in Dublin at all, it’s in County Mayo in the west of the country. All four are free of charge.
I think that classing the Guinness Storehouse as a museum is pushing it a bit but if you’re going to do that then you need to include the following:
The most visited exhibition in Dublin is the Book of Kells at Trinity College.
Dublinia (by Christchurch cathedral) interactive, devoted to Dublin during the Viking and medieval periods, good for kids too – as is the completely transformed Wax Museum (on Dame Street by old parliament, near Trinity).
IMMA is generally better for its architecture than its exhibitions. For painting in general, including the Caravaggio that featured in “Ordinary Decent Criminal”, you want the National Gallery (alongside Natural History Museum) and Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery (Parnell Square – full of impressionists) – both free. Back to back with the National Gallery is the National LIbrary, with a briliant exhibition on W B Yeats also free.
The Georgian House Museum at the top of Merrion Square is your one chance to see one of these on the inside.
Kilmainham Gaol (opposite IMMA) has a museum of revolutionary movements in Ireland as well as excellent guided tour of the prison itself – virtually every nationalist hero from the late 1700s onwards spent time here, and many were executed here as well.
That’s the main ones. There are plenty more (James Joyce Centre, G B Shaw house, Jewish museum..) as well as castles (Dalkey, Malahide) and “big houses” (Farmleigh, Casino Marino) all easily accessible by public transport. It’s sad that so many people make straight for Guinness, which is very pricey (standard adult ticket €15 = 3 pints!) and miss out on everything else – much of it free.
Enjoy your time here!

]]> By: Rob Innis https://www.expatify.com/ireland/exploring-the-museums-of-dublin-ireland.html/comment-page-1#comment-2061 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:59:24 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=4073#comment-2061 I am feeling rather guilty that I have only ever visited the Guinness location from the above list during my one previous visit to Dublin.

Something I will put right next time.

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