Bring learning to life this autumn with the National Museum of Ireland’s exciting programme for primary and post primary schools!
Across our sites in Dublin and Mayo, we’re offering a rich variety of hands-on workshops, immersive guided tours, and engaging classroom activities designed to spark curiosity and support curriculum learning. With limited spaces available and popular sessions like the new Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks opening for school visits, we encourage early booking to avoid disappointment.
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What's on for Primary Schools at the National Museum of Ireland
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What's on for Post Primary Schools at the National Museum of Ireland
BOOKINGS & ENQUIRIES:
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To book a visit to one of our Dublin Museums, submit a Schools Enquiry Form and our Bookings Office will get back to you regarding availability for your chosen session. You can also email bookings@museum.ie or call (01) 648 6453.
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Enquiries regarding Bookings for Turlough Park can be directed to BookingsCountryLife@museum.ie or (094) 90 31751.
See the full schools programme for the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND at:
Some highlights for PRIMARY LEVEL include:
WORKSHOP: Create Your Own Family Tree
Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 November
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
This workshop facilitated by the Mayo Genealogy Group will help students with top tips on how to create a Family Tree through a mixture of researching and investigating. FIND OUT MORE
WORKSHOP: Calendar Customs: Traditional Christmas Decorations
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 December
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
Take inspiration from the National Museum collections and the Natural environment to create traditional Christmas decorations. FIND OUT MORE
Seasonal Nature Tours at Turlough Park
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
Find out about nature and biodiversity on a seasonal woodland walk. Discover what trees are on site and how to identify them at different times of the year and then figure out what animals and plants are here and what we can do to protect them. FIND OUT MORE
Top 10 Tour: Highlights of the National Folklife Collection
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
See how people lived in Ireland in times gone. Learn about traditional lifestyles including trades, customs, life in the home, clothing, farming and fishing. FIND OUT MORE
WORKSHOP: Safari in Silver
Thursdays from 10am - 11am and 12pm - 1pm
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
In this sensory creative art & drama workshop students will be introduced to the Museum's Irish Silver collection and learn about mythical creatures of the past. FIND OUT MORE
WORKSHOP: If Things Could Talk
Tuesdays from 10am - 11am and 12pm - 1pm
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
Explore the power of objects to tell stories about Ireland’s rich history. Working in small groups, students will develop their historical enquiry and communication skills, through hands-on, object based learning. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: Recovered Voices: Stories and Experiences of the Irish during World War One
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
Join an experienced Museum guide for this interactive tour that focuses on the people involved in World War One and how the War impacted their lives. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: Game, Set, Match: The History of Sports in Irish Society
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
From hair hurling balls dating from the 1500s to ladies camogie dresses from the 1960s, join Museum Guides on an engaging and interactive tour focuses on the development and evolution of Ireland's sociatal and sporting past. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: A Taste of the Past - The History of Food and Drink
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
This interactive tour will give students a flavour of the wealth of artefacts on display in the Museum that show the continuity and change of food preparation over time and the fascinating insights dining can give us into life, society and culture in Ireland. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR BUNDLE: Continuity & Change Over the Centuries
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
On this interactive social history tour, students explore how fashions in clothing and food have developed over time, revealing the fascinating insights that objects can teach us about everyday life and culture in 18th and 19th century Irish society. FIND OUT MORE
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: The Stone Age
(National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2)
Use these curriculum-linked activity sheets to learn more about the Stone Age in Ireland. FIND OUT MORE
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: The Bronze Age
(National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2)
Explore what life was like during the Bronze Age in Ireland using these curriculum-linked activity sheets in the classroom. FIND OUT MORE
MEET & GREET: Dead Zoo Lab Explorers
(The Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
Start your Dead Zoo Lab Exploration with a Meet & Greet! Be the first to visit the newly opened Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks. FIND OUT MORE
GNÍOMHAÍOCHTAÍ SEOMRA RANGA: Cuardach Focal Séasúracha
Iarr ar do dhaltaí triail a bhaint as na cuardaigh seo d'fhocail shéasúracha chun cur lena gcuid foclóra, agus an litriú agus an cumas díriú ar an obair a fheabhsú, agus iad ag cur eolais ar an dúlra sa Mhúsaem. FAIGH TUILLEADH EOLAIS
GNÍOMHAÍOCHTAÍ SEOMRA RANGA: Éire san Oighearaois – Iontaisí Iontacha
Sa ghníomhaíocht Músaeim seo, déanfaimid iniúchadh ar Oighearaois na hÉireann, foghlaimeoimid faoi iontaisí i mbailiúchán an Mhúsaeim agus faoi na cineálacha éagsúla ainmhithe a bhí ina gcónaí anseo san am a chuaigh thart. FAIGH TUILLEADH EOLAIS
Some highlights for POST PRIMARY LEVEL include:
WORKSHOP: How to Research Your Family History
Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 November
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
This workshop facilitated by the Mayo Genealogy Group will help students with top tips on how to create a Family Tree and research your family history through a mixture of researching and investigating. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: Highlights of the National Folklife Collection
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
(National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo)
Learn and develop an understanding about traditional lifestyles including trades, customs, life in the home, clothing, farming and fishing. Gain a fresh perspective on society, economy, culture and politics in Ireland from 1850 to 1950 by examining the various objects on display in the National Museum of Ireland at Turlough Park. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: From Revolution to Repeal: An Introduction to Changing Ireland
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
This tour takes students through the new Changing Ireland galleries, focusing on objects which demonstrate to us how Ireland has changed in the past 120 years. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: Sliotars, Sashes and Symbols: Shaping Irish Identity
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
On this tour we look at how the meaning of ‘being Irish’ has evolved since 1900 through the new Changing Ireland galleries. We examine how Irish governments, organisations and ordinary people have attempted to shape national identity through language, culture, sports, and religion. FIND OUT MORE
GUIDED TOUR: Game, Set, Match: The History of Sports in Irish Society
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
(National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
From hair hurling balls dating from the 1500s to ladies camogie dresses from the 1960s, join Museum Guides on an engaging and interactive tour focuses on the development and evolution of Ireland's sociatal and sporting past. FIND OUT MORE
Student Manuscript Project
(National Museum of Ireland, Kidare Street, Dublin 2)
Inspired by medieval manuscripts and artefacts, 160 students from Ireland and Switzerland have created two books for the exhibition, Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the National Museum of Ireland at Kildare Street. Each of these beautiful modern manuscript pages are displayed as part of the exhibition. To avoid missing out on seeing this display, book your visit before the exhibition closes at the end of October. FIND OUT MORE
VIRTUAL SESSION: Leaving Certificate Art History
(Online Session)
This online virtual session will examine key artefacts from the Museum's collection that are part of the Leaving Certificate Art History specification. FIND OUT MORE
ONLINE RESOURCE: Glendalough: Artefacts, Archaeology and Early Christianity
(Video Resource)
Join Museum staff, archaeologists and scientists, in exhibitions, laboratories, and at archaeological sites and monuments, to discover what archaeologists and museums do, and the archaeology and objects of Early Christian Ireland. FIND OUT MORE
SELF GUIDED VISIT: Dead Zoo Lab
Tuesday and Wednesday Mornings at 10am, 11am and 12 noon.
(Dead Zoo Lab, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7)
Let the Museum and its collections capture the imagination of your students with a self-guided visit. FIND OUT MORE
RESOURCE: What are Natural History Scientific Collections
(Natural History online)
Discover the scientific collections of the National Museum of Ireland at Merrion Street and go behind the scenes of the Museum with talks from our Tales from the Decant Series. FIND OUT MORE
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