FREE ENTRY PLUS The Dublin Pass offers 4 FREE postcards and 20 off “Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland” & 10% discount on all purchases in the Museum Café.
Collins Barracks could be said to be the National Museum of Ireland's largest artefact, having had a unique history all of its own in another life. It now completes the picture for the National Museum in Dublin and joins the two already famous buildings in the possession of the Museum. Collins Barracks has been completely renovated and restored to become the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History – charting Ireland's economic, social, political and military progress through the ages. Artefacts on display range from silver, ceramic and glassware pieces to weaponry, furniture, examples of folk life and costume. The new Military History exhibition called 'Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad, 1550-2001.' uses original artefacts, letters, replicas and audio accounts, showing how soldiering and war have affected the lives of Irish people. All of these pieces are displayed with imagination in innovative and contemporary galleries, which entice you to go further, look harder and examine more closely
Note: The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology & History is a free attraction to all visitors. Dublin Pass holders get the added benefit of 4 free postcards, 20% off 'Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland' and 10% off all purchases in the Museum Café, on presentation of the Dublin Pass.
Opening Times:
Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 2pm-5pm
Closed Monday
Facilities:
Museum café, museum gift shop, free car parking, education resource room, fully wheelchair accessible.
How to Get There:
By bus: 90 (from Aston Quay); 25, 25A, 66, 67 (from Middle Abbey Street).
By train: DART to Tara Street with connecting bus.
By LUAS: dedicated 'Museum' stop on the Red Luas line
By Train: DART to Tara Street with connecting bus, or Connolly Station with connecting Red Luas line
