National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
Guide
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeMuseumAllow 1–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Prehistoric gold collars and brooches, the Ardagh Chalice and Tara Brooch, Viking finds from Dublin, and Iron Age bog bodies preserved for over two thousand years in the peat.
A brief history
The Kildare Street building, with its domed rotunda, opened in 1890. The bog bodies were found by turf cutters, and are among the best-preserved in Europe.
Tips
- Best time
- Weekday morning
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 1–2 h
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- Usually Tuesday–Saturday 10:00–17:00, Sunday and Monday afternoons only (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Trinity and the Georgian south side: Trinity College, Grafton Street, St Stephen's Green, the national museums and the Georgian squares. Handsome and central, but beds are dear.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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