Drop-In: Raiders, Traders and Settlers! Viking Ireland Handling Workshop
Find out about life in Viking Dublin by visiting the Learning Resource Room at the Museum to see some replica Viking Artefacts!
Halloween Crafts at the Museum
Enjoy some drop-in crafting activities inspired by all things Halloween!
Drop-In: Forge and Rune! Viking Sword Craft Workshop
Make your own mini paper Viking sword during this drop-in craft workshop.
Bram Stoker Festival - Life, Disease, and Death tours of Collins Barracks
Bram Stoker Festival is a yearly celebration of all things eerie, inspired by the spooky oeuvre of Dublin's own Bram Stoker.
Bram Stoker Festival - Family Workshop - Making Faces!
Trick or Treat! Drop in to Collins Barracks to make a Halloween mask inspired by the Museum's collections in this family-friendly art-making workshop.
Bram Stoker Festival 2025
Azure Dementia-Inclusive Tours
Azure tours are a free online gallery led experience specifically designed to support people living with dementia and their family, friends or carers.
EVENT BOOKED OUT: Late Night Opening: Treasures from Home: Bring your cherished objects and explore their history with our museum curators
Bring your own personal objects to the newly opening Changing Ireland galleries and chat with curators about their stories
LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks
Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens on our brand new tour.
Science Week Family Drop-in
Drop into the new Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks this Science Week
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Dublin 7 & Dublin 8 Community Engagement - NMI Collins Barracks
Spark curiousity, learning and engagement this school term with a class visit to the National Museum of Ireland!
Our Merrion Street location is closed for works but learn more about an exciting new space called the 'Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks'
Gallery 4 (the Irish in British Regiments) of the Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition is temporarily closed to the public.
Mar chomhartha ómóis, beidh Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann, Sráid Chill Dara, dúnta don phobal ón 1pm Dé hAoine, an 13 Nollaig. Beidh an tArd-Mhúsaem i nDún Uí Choileáin oscailte mar is gnách Dé hAoine.