National Museum of Ireland, Kildare street

This museum is located in the heart of Dublin, right beside the Dáil( essentially the Irish parliment), and is just up the road from Trinity College also. Its free and not overly big, its easliy reached by 5 mins walk from anywhere around o'Connel Street and so it is a very good and well spent evening or couple of hours. the museum itseld is split themeaticaly. In the main are there is a large exhibition showing a lot of prehistoric artefacts. In particular the Bronze Age goldwork exhibiton is truly breathtaking. Of this is what must be admitted to ba a rather poor room containing a number of Iron age artefacts, before entering the Treasury. This houses some ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ The National Museum of Ireland houses all the countries treasures, and contains artefacts dating from as early as 7000 BC right up to the 20th century. It is in fact split into two buildings. The main building, on Kildare St., houses the Antiquities and Industry sections, while the Natural History Museum is located at Leinster Lawn on Merrion Row. The Natural History Museum actually merits an opinion of its own, and here I will concentrate solely on the main Museum in Kildare Street. The various exhibitions at the Museum are both extremely interesting and varied, many dating back thousands of years, and I hope that here I will be able to give you just ...  Read the complete review

Based in two sites, the National Museum houses artefacts which date from 7000 BC to the 20th century. Established in 1890, the National Museum houses a collection of artefacts and treasures dating from 7000 BC to the present day. Since 1998 the National Museum collection has been divided between the Kildare Street building and Collins Barracks at Arbour Hill. In the Kildare St building in the city centre, which was opened in 1890, exhibitions include The Treasury, which features major examples of Celtic and Medieval art such as the famous Ardagh Chalice, Tara Brooch and the Derrynaflan Hoard. Prehistoric gold artefacts are featured in the Ór - ...  Read the complete review