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The entrance rotunda of the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare StreetPhotograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0

What to do · Dublin

National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology, on Kildare Street

Museum · 1 h 30 · free · Bronze Age gold, bog bodies and the Vikings of Dublin

InformationFree
Price
Free
Duration
1 h 30
Season
All year; Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, Sunday and Monday 13:00 to 17:00
Who it's for
All ages

The archaeology museum on Kildare Street, five minutes from Trinity College, is free and is the best plan in Dublin for a rainy day. It holds Ireland's Bronze Age gold, bodies preserved in bogs more than two thousand years ago, Christian Ireland of the monasteries and Viking Dublin. In an hour and a half you will see the main things.

Mind the opening hours: on Sunday and Monday it does not open until 13:00. Some galleries sometimes close without warning, so if you are coming for one particular piece, check the website that day.

As a familyWith teenagers

Directions See all of Dublin

Opening hours and prices can change: check them before you go.

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