11.30am - 1pm, Saturday, 10 June 2023
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Mayo Genealogy Group
Find out how to get started with your family research project at the next meeting of the Mayo Genealogy Group.
Exhibitions
The Hand Remembers
Brown Brothers Catalogue, 1913
Visitor Information
Free Admission to all our museums
Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday:
10am-5pm
Sunday - Monday:
1pm-5pm
Upcoming Events
Engage and Learn
The Museum's Education & Learning Department offers a range of engaging and imaginative curriculum-linked resources, activities, and events for schools.
Families
Attend a fun workshop together or find top things to do for families at the Museum.
Find out moreLearning Resources
We offer a range of resources for schools which you can use at the museum, at home or in the classroom.
Find out moreThe Irish Folklife Collection amounts to c.35,000 objects complemented by extensive archive documentation which includes a specialist library, field recordings and image collections.
The aim of the Irish Folklife Division is to collect and preserve objects representative of the material culture that forms part of the traditional way of life of Ireland.
Did you know?
In Ireland, at Halloween, we carved turnips to create scary-faced lanterns. The term, Jack o’ Lanterns, takes its name from the folktale about Jack, who was welcome neither in Heaven or Hell and was destined to wander the countryside forever, with just a lantern to light the way.
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Turlough Park,
Castlebar,
Co. Mayo,
F23 HY31
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