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Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th May, Adults and Families

LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks

Free

Image of the Non-Conformist chair, on display in the Museum's Eileen Gray exhibition

Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum at the National Museum

Saturday, 24 May 2025
11:00 - 16:00   LGBTQIA+ Tour
13:00    ISL interpreted - LGBTQIA+ Tour. For more information about this tour, please see here.
These tours will take place hourly from 11:00 - 16:00, during Museum opening hours. 

Sunday, 25 May 2025
14:00    LGBTQIA+ Tour
15:30    LGBTQIA+ Tour

Tours will begin in Reception at Collins Barracks. Booking for the weekend tours is not required. However, places are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
This new guided LGBTQIA+ tour views the exhibitions through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way. This tour is not a complete or comprehensive LGBTQIA+ history of the collection at Collins Barracks, but an effort to highlight the rich diversity of lives and experiences on the island of Ireland across time.
Spanning the establishment of the Barracks itself to Ireland’s passing of the Marriage Equality Referendum in 2015, highlights include the non-conformist chair by world renowned designer and architect Eileen Gray and artefacts belonging to some of the women of Ireland’s revolutionary period.
This event is taking place as part of our Marriage Equality Referendum Commemoration weekend. Please see the hyperlink for the full programme of events across this weekend.

Location:


LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks is located at:
Collins Barracks ,
Benburb St,
Dublin 7
D07 XKV4


Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum at the National Museum

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Collins Barracks

Collins Barracks ,
Benburb St,
Dublin 7,
D07 XKV4

+353 1 677 7444