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Primary Schools

Capture the imagination of your students, make learning fun, and discover what your class can learn from the Museum

To arrange Education and Community group bookings you must contact the Bookings Office at bookings@museum.ie. Education and Community groups that attend without booking may be refused entry.

Please see here for important information on Group Visits.


Our resources, activities and sessions are:

  • Linked to the national curricula for Primary and Post-Primary

  • Designed by our experienced Education Team and created to enable your students to expand their knowledge, gain deeper understanding, and develop new skills

  • Created for teachers and students to engage with the extensive collections of the National Museum of Ireland

  • All resources, activities, and sessions are free of charge


Use our Educational Learning Resources to explore the collection at the Museum

Choose a topic below to discover both tours and workshops at Collins Barracks, as well as in-classroom resources to bring the Museum to your students. You can also check out our virtual sessions to engage with one of our Museum Educators.  

We are constantly developing onsite tours, workshops, virtual sessions and additional resources for schools. These pages will be regularly updated with more resources, activities, virtual sessions, and information for students and teachers as they become available.


For more information

Please contact our Bookings Office at bookings@museum.ie to find out more about onsite and online resources.


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Collins Barracks ,
Benburb St,
Dublin 7,
D07 XKV4

+353 1 677 7444