Best places: Museums in Dublin, Ireland

Tours tell the story of a 1740s house carefully restored to grandeur after falling into disrepair.

Expert guides tell the story of Jameson in a recreated distillery scene with tastings and dining.

Museum on castle grounds housing the mining magnate's vast collection of religious & artistic texts.

Tours below and above deck of a replica, 19th-century ship that took Irish emigrants to America.

Local archaeological finds from the Bronze Age, Vikings and medieval times with some Egyptian items.

👍👍 When you pick up your ticket to go into the Emigration Museum you are given a little card, which is described as your passport, that shows all the rooms that form the different exhibition rooms. In each room you can collect a stamp for that part of your "passport", which adds a fun element to your v...

Guided tours tracing the history of whiskey through interactive exhibits, plus a tasting at the end.

Irish haute couture and silver collections alongside exhibitions exploring Irish military history.

Museum chronicling remarkable changes to the lifestyles of Dubliners over the the last century.

Popular immersive & interactive attraction & tourist hub on the 1916 Easter Rising aftermath.

Prison museum where many of Ireland's political prisoners were incarcerated, tortured and executed.

Museum of Gaelic sports (Gaelic football, hurling, handball and camogie) with interactive exhibits.

👍👍 The museum exhibits fascinating printing machinery, the staff help you immerse into the the printing world telling you stories and showing how things are done. A really cute little place definitely worth a visit!

Terraced, Georgian-era villas open for tours of stucco interiors & exhibitions on Irish literature.

Stuffed and mounted animals are displayed in their 19th-century grandeur in this throwback museum.

Sights and smells bring hundreds of years' worth of history to life at this child-friendly museum.

👍👍 I discovered Marsh’s Library on TikTok before our planned Dublin visit and was so glad I did! My husband & I went here right after our Trinity Tour & we loved Marsh’s more! You read that correctly! (Not to make it a competition as both libraries have their highlights, we just weren’t able to experie...

Gallery containing the reconstructed studio of Francis Bacon, plus modern European & Irish works.

👍👍 A very worthwhile experience. Started with the 15 minute video clip & then walked through the rooms reading the numbered boards. Such interesting facts and remarkable accounts of the history. £12 per person. We spent over 1h 30 at the exhibition by going at a leisurely pace reading through all the b...

Idiosyncratic museum in 1784 Georgian town house with Joyce's writing table.