# List of museums in the Republic of Ireland

This list of museums in Republic of Ireland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Many other small historical displays are located in the country's stately homes, including those run by the National Trust.
To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
| Name | Town/city | County | Province | Region | Type | Summary |
| Abbeyleix Heritage House | Abbeyleix | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Allihies Copper Mine Museum | Allihies | Cork | Munster | South-West | Mining | website, over 3500 years of area copper mining |
| Altidore Castle | Kilpedder | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Historic house | information |
| An Post Museum | Dublin | County Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Philately | Postal service in the Republic of Ireland, Irish stamps |
| Aran Heritage Centre | Kilronan | Galway | Connacht | West | Local | website, island fishing, culture, history |
| Áras an Uachtaráin | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | Official residence of the President of Ireland, located in the Phoenix Park |
| Ardara Heritage Centre | Ardara | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Industry | website, local tweed industry, local cultural centre |
| Ardgillan Castle | Balbriggan | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | 18th-century country house and park |
| Arigna Mining Experience | Arigna | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Mining | coal-mining and underground tour |
| Arklow Maritime Museum | Arklow | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Maritime | website, Maritime artefacts, shipbuilders' models, half models, plans, art |
| Ashtown Castle | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | Fortified medieval tower house, located in the Phoenix Park |
| Athenry Castle | Athenry | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | website, medieval castle |
| Athenry Heritage Centre | Athenry | Galway | Connacht | West | Multiple | website, medieval and local history, arts centre |
| Aughnanure Castle | Oughterard | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | Medieval tower house remains |
| Avondale House | Rathdrum | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Historic house | Mid-19th-century-period birthplace and home of political leader Charles Stewart Parnell |
| Ballina Arts Centre | Ballina | Mayo | Connacht | West | Art | website, multidisciplinary arts centre with gallery |
| Ballintubber Abbey | Ballintubber | Mayo | Connacht | West | Religious | Medieval royal abbey still in use, part in ruins |
| Ballymore Historic Features | Camolin | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Agriculture | website, traditional farm and museum of rural life |
| Bantry Museum | Bantry | Cork | Munster | South-West | Local | information, local history, operated by the Bantry Historical Society |
| Bantry House | Bantry | Cork | Munster | South-West | Historic house | 18th-century mansion featuring fine furnishings and decorations, gardens |
| Barryscourt Castle | Carrigtwohill | Cork | Munster | South-West | Historic house | Tours of the restored 16th-century castle |
| Battle Of Aughrim Interpretative Centre | Aughrim | Galway | Connacht | West | Military | information, history of the Battle of Aughrim in 1691 |
| Battle of the Boyne Interpretative Centre | Drogheda | Meath | Leinster | Mid-East | Historic house and battle field | website, history of the Battle of the Boyne fought in 1690 |
| Beaulieu House, Gardens & Car Museum | Drogheda | Louth | Leinster | Border | Historic house | Manor house dating from 1710 and car museum |
| Belcarra Eviction Cottage | Belcarra | Mayo | Connacht | West | Local | information, reconstructed 19th-century cottage with displays on local history |
| Belltable Arts Centre | Limerick | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Art | Multidisciplinary arts centre with gallery |
| Belvedere College Museum | Dublin | County Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house and school | School museum documenting past pupils of Belvedere College and school history contained in Belvedere House |
| Belvedere House and Gardens | Mullingar | Westmeath | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Historic house | Georgian estate and gardens |
| Berkeley Costume and Toy Museum | New Ross | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Toy | information, 18th- and 19th-century toys, costumes, toy carriages, embroidered textiles and rare dolls |
| Bishop Daniel Delany Museum | Tullow | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | Biographical | information, life and artefact of Bishop Daniel Delany |
| Blackrock Castle | Cork | Cork | South-West | Munster | Science | Observatory with space and science exhibits, tours of the castle and dungeon |
| Blennerville Windmill | Blennerville | Kerry | Munster | South-West | Mill | Restored 19th-century windmill with exhibits on the mill, Irish emigration, area natural history |
| Boyle Abbey | Boyle | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Religious | Medieval abbey ruins and exhibition about its history in the restored gatehouse |
| Bray Heritage Centre | Kilpedder | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Local | information, local history |
| Brian Boru Heritage Centre | Killaloe | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | History | website, Celtic Ireland, life of Irish king Brian Boru |
| Bunratty Castle & Folk Park | Bunratty | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Open air | Medieval fortress with period furnishings and artefacts, 19th-century living village |
| Burren Centre | Kilfenora | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Natural history | website, natural history, megalithic tombs and monuments of The Burren |
| Cahir Castle | Cahir | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Historic house | Medieval fortress castle |
| Cape Clear Museum | Cape Clear Island | Cork | Munster | South-West | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Cappoquin House & Gardens | Cappoquin | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Historic house | website, 18th-century Georgian mansion |
| Carlow County Museum | Carlow | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | Local | Local history and archaeology. Free admission |
| Carrick Craft Basketry Museum | Mountnugent | Cavan | Ulster | Border | Art | website, traditional baskets in rod, rush and straw |
| Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery | Clifden | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Archaeology | Visitor centre and cemetery of megalithic tombs |
| Castlecoote House | Castlecoote | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Historic house | website, early Georgian Palladian mansion built on the grounds of a ruined 16th-century castle |
| Castlerea Railway Museum | Castlerea | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Railway | website, also known as Hells Kitchen Museum, railway memorabilia including a restored A55 diesel locomotive, bells, lamps, shunting poles, signal equipment, staffs, station boards and more |
| Castletown House | Celbridge | Kildare | Leinster | Mid-East | Historic house | 18th-century Palladian country house |
| Cavan and Leitrim Railway | Dromod | Leitrim | Connacht | Border | Railway | Heritage narrow-gauge railway and museum |
| Cavan County Museum | Ballyjamesduff | Cavan | Ulster | Border | Local | Local history, culture, archaeology, Celtic heritage, rural life, costumes, art exhibits |
| Cavanacor House | Lifford | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Historic house | website, 17th-century plantation house, ancestral family ties to U.S. President James K. Polk, features historic furniture, art exhibits |
| Céide Fields | Ballycastle | Mayo | Connacht | West | Archaeology | Visitor centre and Stone Age monument consisting of field systems, dwelling areas and megalithic tombs |
| Ceim Hill Museum | Union Hall | Cork | Munster | South-West | Local | information, local history, artefacts of rural life |
| Celtic Furrow Visitor Centre | Ballintubber | Mayo | Connacht | West | History | information, traces cultural, historical and spiritual roots in Ireland over 5,000 years, rural life |
| Chester Beatty Library | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Multiple | Exhibits of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts from the Islamic, East Asian and Western collections |
| Clare Archaeology Centre | Corofin | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Archaeology | Located at Dysert O’Dea Castle, area artefacts and trail of ruins |
| Clare Heritage Centre Museum | Corofin | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Local | website, local history, culture, emigration to other countries |
| Clare Museum | Ennis | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Local | website, local history, culture, geology, agriculture, influence of Christianity, River Shannon and maritime heritage, West Clare Railway |
| Claypipe Centre | Knockcroghery | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Industry | website, craft workshop for making clay pipes, display of historic designs and history of the village's clay pipe industry |
| Clew Bay Heritage Centre | Westport | Mayo | Connacht | West | Local | information, local history, culture |
| Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre | Killaloe | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Natural history | Exhibits on the ocean, weather, climate, geology, wildlife, local history and culture |
| Clogher Heritage Complex | Claremorris | Mayo | Connacht | West | Historic house | information, constructed 19th-century-period thatched cottage, outdoor display of farm machinery, working forge |
| Clonalis House | Castlerea | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Historic house | Late-19th-century mansion |
| Cobh Heritage Centre | Cobh | Cork | Munster | South-West | History | Life in Ireland through the 18th and 19th centuries, the mass emigration, the Great Famine, how criminals were transported to Australia |
| Colmcille Heritage Centre | Gartan | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Religious | website, life of 6th-century Saint Colmcille, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland |
| Connemara Heritage and History Centre | Clifden | Galway | Connacht | West | Open air | Includes restored prefamine early-19th-century cottage and farm, reconstructions of a crannóg, ring fort and a clochaun |
| Cork Butter Museum | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Food | website, dairy culture in Ireland and the butter trade |
| Cork City Gaol | Cork | Cork | South-West | Munster | Prison | website, late-19th- to early-20th-century-period prison scenes with wax figures |
| Cork Public Museum | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Multiple | website, city history, archaeology, trades and crafts, lace, military, ethnographic artefacts, costumes |
| Cork Vision Centre | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Multiple | website, changing exhibits of culture, art, local history, photography |
| County Carlow Military Museum | Carlow | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | Military | website |
| County Museum Dundalk | Dundalk | Louth | Leinster | Border | Local | website, also known as Louth County Museum, local history, culture, archaeology, social history, agriculture, industry |
| Craggaunowen – the Living Past Experience | Sixmilebridge | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Open air | Interprets Ireland’s pre-historic and early Christian eras, includes Craggaunowen Castle |
| Crawford Municipal Art Gallery | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Art | Collection includes European and Irish art, casts of classical Greek and Roman statues |
| Croagh Patrick Visitor Center | Murrisk | Mayo | Connacht | West | Multiple | Archaeology, natural history and religious significance of the mountain and pilgrimage site |
| Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre | Tulsk | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Archaeology | website, archaeology, mythology, and history of the Celtic Royal Sites at Rathcroghan mound and the medieval village of Tulsk |
| Dartfield Horse Museum and Heritage Centre | Dartfield | Galway | Connacht | West | Multiple | website, Irish horses, Connemara Ponies and Irish dogs, country life, vintage cars |
| De Valera Museum and Bruree Heritage Centre | Bruree | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Biographical | information, life of former President of Ireland Éamon de Valera, local history |
| Derryglad Folk Museum | Curraghboy | Roscommon | Connacht | West | History | website, farm and folk life in Ireland from the 18th to the 20th century |
| Drimnagh Castle | Drimnagh | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | |
| Drogheda Museum Millmount | Drogheda | Louth | Leinster | Border | History | Website History, social, culture, archaeology, geology. |
| Doagh Famine Village | Doagh Island | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Open air | website, island village tours depicting life in the area from the 1840s Famine through to the late 20th century |
| Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum | Donaghmore | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | History | website, life in the workhouse, also agriculture |
| Donegal Castle | Donegal | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Historic house | Furnished 15th- to 17th-century castle |
| Donegal Ancestry Centre | Ramelton | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Local | website, includes a heritage exhibition about Ramelton's history and culture, also a genealogy centre |
| Donegal County Museum | Letterkenny | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Local | Local history, culture, archaeology, social history and folklife |
| Donegal Railway Centre | Donegal | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Railway | Heritage railway and museum |
| Douglas Hyde Centre | Frenchpark | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Biographical | website, life of Douglas Hyde, scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945 |
| Douglas Hyde Gallery | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Contemporary art |
| Dublin Castle | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | Medieval fortress now used for state occasions, tours of the state apartments, undercroft, Chapel Royal, craft shop, heritage centre |
| Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Municipal gallery of contemporary Irish art, formerly the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery |
| Dublin Writers Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Literary | Irish writings and literature |
| Dunbrody | New Ross | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Maritime | Replica 19th-century sailing ship with exhibits about Irish emigrants |
| Duncannon Fort | Duncannon | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Military | website, star-shaped 16th-century fort used to house prisoners from the Irish Rebellion of 1798, also features a maritime museum, children's museum and art gallery |
| Dunfanaghy Workhouse Heritage Centre | Dunfanaghy | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Multiple | website, local history and culture, the Great Famine, life in the workhouse, art exhibits |
| Dungarvan Castle | Dungarvan | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Military | website, medieval castle keep with 18th-century military barracks |
| Dunguaire Castle | Kinvara | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | 16th-century castle |
| Dunlewey Centre | Dunlewey | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Historic house | website, includes historic tweed weaver's cottage |
| Dunsandle Castle | Athenry | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | 15th-century castle |
| Elizabeth Fort | Cork | Cork | South-West | Munster | Military | 17th century star-shaped fort used for military and law enforcement purposes |
| Elphin Windmill | Elphin | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Mill | information, restored 18th-century windmill, also Mill Cottage Agricultural Museum |
| EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Multiple | Dedicated to Irish emigration, housed in the restored vaults of a 19th-century warehouse in Dublin's Docklands |
| Emo Court | Emo | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Historic house | Late-18th-century mansion and gardens |
| Fairbrook House | Kilmeaden | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Art | website, contemporary figurative art and gardens |
| Famine Warhouse 1848 | Ballingarry | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | History | website, scene of the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 |
| Farmleigh | Castleknock | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | Official Irish State Guest House, 19th-century mansion and gardens open for tours |
| Fethard Folk Farm and Transport Museum | Fethard | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Multiple | information, information, household items, vehicles, farm tools and equipment, folk life exhibits |
| Fort Dunree | Buncrana | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Military | Mostly 19th-century fort with military memorabilia and displays |
| Foxford Woollen Mills Visitor Centre | Foxford | Mayo | Connacht | West | Industry | information, includes tours of the operating mill, art galleries |
| Fr McDyer's Folk Village Museum | Glencolmcille | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Open air | website, thatched rural cottage village with replica furnished cottages from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Fr Murphy Centre | Boolavogue | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Agriculture | website, restored 19th-century farmyard, earlier home of Father John Murphy, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
| Fr Patrick Peyton CSC Memorial Centre | Attymass | Mayo | Connacht | West | Religious | information, life and apostolic works of Reverend Father Patrick Peyton |
| Fox's Lane Museum | Youghal | Cork | Munster | South-West | History | website, evolution and development of household conveniences and appliances used in the home from the 1850s to the 1950s |
| Frye Model Railwyay | Malahide | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Railway | Located in Malahide Castle, collection of handmade models of Irish trains |
| GAA Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Sports | Located at Croke Park, history and contributions of the Gaelic Athletic Association |
| Galway City Museum | Galway | Galway | Connacht | West | Local | City's history, culture, trade, industry, military |
| Glasnevin Museum | Glasnevin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | History | Social, historical, political and artistic development of modern Ireland through the lives of the generations buried in Glasnevin Cemetery |
| Glebe House and Gallery | Letterkenny | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Art | website, early-19th-century Regency House decorated with William Morris textiles, Islamic and Japanese art, features the Derek Hill collection of works by leading 20th-century artists |
| Glengowla Mines | Oughterard | Galway | Connacht | West | Mining | website, 19th-century silver and lead mine |
| Glenveagh Castle | Churchill | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Historic house | 19th-century castle and gardens |
| Glenview Folk Museum | Ballinamore | Leitrim | Connacht | Border | History | website, agriculture equipment and machinery, recreated shops and a pub, household artefacts |
| Famine Museum and Granuaile Visitor Centre | Louisburgh | Mayo | Connacht | West | History | information, life of 16th-century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley, exhibits about the Great Famine in County Mayo |
| Greenan Farm Museums & Maze | Greenan | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Agriculture | website, working family farm, a barn museum with historic farming tools and equipment, a bottle museum with antique 19th- and early-20th-century Irish bottles, jars and vessels, and a 16th–17th-century-period farmhouse |
| Guinness Storehouse | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Food | Brewing ingredients, process, brand history, memorabilia |
| Gurtnagrough Folk Museum | Ballydehob | Cork | Munster | South-West | History | information, rural life artefacts |
| Hennigan's Heritage Centre | Knock | Mayo | Connacht | West | Local | website, information, heritage of life of the Mayo area, farming, home, jobs and work, culture |
| Hillview Museum | Bagenalstown | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | History | information, household artifacts and vintage farm machinery |
| Hook Lighthouse | Fethard-on-Sea | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Maritime | Visitor centre and guided tours of the lighthouse tower |
| Hunt Museum | Limerick | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Art | Fine art and antiquities dating from the Neolithic to the 20th century |
| Ionad Deirbhle | Aughleam | Mayo | Connacht | West | Local | information, also known as Eachléim Heritage Centre, local folklore, archaeology, history rural life, currach fishing, construction of old houses |
| Imaginosity, Dublin Children’s Museum | Sandyford | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Children's | website |
| Inishowen Maritime Museum | Greencastle | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Maritime | website, lifesaving, Malin Head Radio Station, fishing, seafaring, lighthouses, shipwrecks, naval history, planetarium |
| International Museum of Wine | Kinsale | Cork | Munster | South-West | History | Links between Ireland and the wine trade |
| Ireland's Historic Science Centre | Birr | Offaly | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Science | Located at Birr Castle, Ireland's historic scientists and their contributions to astronomy and botany |
| Irish Agricultural Museum | Johnstown Castle, Murrintown | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Agriculture | Farming, famine and country life |
| Irish Fly Fishing and Game Shooting Museum | Attanagh | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Sports | information, information, vintage rods, reels, guns, tackle, tools and specimens of birds and fish |
| Irish Jewish Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Ethnic | Located in a former synagogue, history and culture of Ireland's Jewish communities |
| Irish Museum of Modern Art | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Modern and contemporary art, located at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham |
| Irish National Heritage Park | Wexford | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Open air | Recreated homesteads, places of ritual, burial modes and remains |
| Irish National Stud | Celbridge | Kildare | Leinster | Mid-East | Sports | Includes the Horse Museum about horse racing in Ireland, Japanese gardens |
| Irish Rock N Roll Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Temple Bar | Music | website, Irish musical icons and their recordings, vintage guitars and amplifiers, Thin Lizzy band |
| Jackie Clarke Library and Archives | Ballina | Mayo | Connacht | West | Library | website, under development, exhibits from its document collections of over 400 years of Irish history |
| James Joyce Centre | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Literary | Life and works of author James Joyce |
| James Joyce Tower and Museum | Sandyford | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Literary | Life and works of author James Joyce |
| James Mitchell Geology Museum | Galway | Galway | Connacht | West | Natural history | website, part of Galway's University, rocks, minerals and fossils |
| Jeanie Johnston | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Maritime | Replica of a 19th-century three-masted barque of the same name, exhibits about the Great Famine and immigration |
| Kennedy Homestead | New Ross | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Historic house | website, birthplace of President John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy |
| Kerry Bog Village Museum | Glenbeigh | Kerry | Munster | South-West | historic houses | website, historic houses/village and some animals |
| Kerry County Museum | Tralee | Kerry | Munster | South-West | Local | County history, culture, archaeology, explorer Tom Crean, medieval founding and life |
| Kilmainham Gaol | Kilmainham | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Prison | Historic former prison |
| Kilmore Quay Maritime Museum | Kilmore Quay | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Maritime | information, housed on board the lightship Guillemot |
| Kiltartan Gregory Museum and Millennium Park | Gort | Galway | Connacht | West | Biographical | website, life of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, local history |
| Kiltimagh Museum | Kiltimagh | Mayo | Connacht | West | Local | Local history and culture, located in a former railway station |
| King House | Boyle | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Historic house | website, early-18th-century Georgian mansion with audio-visual dioramas of local history |
| King John's Castle | Limerick | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Historic house | 16th-century fortress |
| Knappogue Castle | Quin | Clare | Munster | Mid-West | Historic house | Medieval tower house and gardens |
| Knock Shrine | Knock | Mayo | Connacht | West | Religious | Major Roman Catholic pilgrimage site with museum about the Knock Apparition of 1879 |
| Lackagh Museum And Heritage Park | Turloughmore | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | information, restored traditional Irish cottage, open by appointment |
| Lár na Páirce | Thurles | County Tipperary | Munster | Mid-West | Sports | website history of gaelic games |
| Lewis Glucksman Gallery | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Art | Part of University College Cork |
| Lifetime Lab | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Technology | Former steam-powered waterworks, exhibits on water, waste, energy and nature |
| Lifford Courthouse | Lifford | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Prison | website, 18th- and 19th-century life in the courthouse and prison |
| Limerick City Gallery of Art | Limerick | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Art | Contemporary Irish art |
| Limerick City Museum | Limerick | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Local | Also known as Jim Kemmy Municipal Museum, city history, culture, industry |
| Lismore Castle | Lismore | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Art | Includes Lismore Castle Arts Gallery, gardens with contemporary sculpture |
| Lismore Heritage Centre | Lismore | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Lissadell House | | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Historic house | 19th-century Regency-style house and gardens |
| The Little Museum of Dublin | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic Building, History | A history of Dublin through artefacts, housed in a restored Georgian building on St. Stephen's Green |
| Lockes Distillery Museum | Kilbeggan | Westmeah | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Industry | Small pot still whiskey distillery |
| Lough Gur Visitors Centre | Bruff | Limerick | Munster | Mid-West | Archaeology | Pre-Celtic Stone age site with artefacts and replica dwellings |
| Malahide Castle | Malahide | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | |
| Marsh's Library | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Library | Exhibits from its collections of 16th- to 18th-century medicine, law, science, travel, navigation, mathematics, music, surveying and classical literature |
| Mayo North Family Heritage Centre | Castlehill | Mayo | Connacht | West | Multiple | website, includes the Irish Heritage Centre Museum with local farm and household artefacts (also known as Enniscoe Museum), a family history research centre, and a forge and craft training centre |
| Michael Collins Centre | Clonakilty | Cork | Munster | South-West | Biographical | website, life and times of Michael Collins, leader of the IRA and later the Free State movement |
| Michael Davitt Museum | Straide | Mayo | Connacht | West | Biographical | information, life of 19th-century political leader Michael Davitt |
| Mill Museum | Tuam | Galway | Connacht | West | Mill | information, preserved corn mill and miller's house |
| Model Arts and Niland Gallery | Sligo | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Art | Contemporary arts centre |
| Monaghan County Museum | Monaghan | Monaghan | Ulster | Border | Local | County history, art, culture |
| Mountmellick Museum | Mountmellick | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Local | website, town's Quaker heritage, Mountmellick embroidery |
| Tara's Palace Museum of Childhood | Enniskerry | Wicklow | Leinster | Dublin | Toy | Located in Powerscourt House, 22 room doll's palace, collection of historic dolls houses |
| Muckross House | Killarney | Kerry | Munster | South-West | Open air | Includes the 19th-century Victorian-period mansion, 1930–40s-period heritage farms, Victorian garden |
| Museum of Country Life | Castlebar | Mayo | Connacht | West | History | Rural way of life of the Irish people between 1850 and 1950; part of the National Museum of Ireland |
| Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLi) | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Irish Literature | Museum Website, Exhibitions on Irish writing |
| Museum of the Master Saddler | Corlough | Cavan | Ulster | Border | Industry | website, saddle and harness-making |
| Museum of Style Icons | Newbridge | Kildare | Leinster | Mid-East | Irish Literature | Clothing and other memoribilia associated with Hollywood stars and other celebrities |
| National 1798 Rebellion Centre | Enniscorthy | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | History | website, history and aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
| National Gallery of Ireland | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Irish and European art |
| Natural History Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Natural history | Victorian-period cases of Irish mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, invertebrates and microbes; part of the National Museum of Ireland |
| National Leprechaun Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Culture | Irish folklore, mythology and story-telling, featuring not only the leprechaun, but many Irish characters and heroes from Irish culture. |
| National Library of Ireland | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Library | Exhibits from its collections of historic documents |
| National Maritime Museum of Ireland | Dún Laoghaire | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Maritime | Ireland's maritime heritage |
| National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Archaeology | Prehistoric Ireland, church treasures, Viking and medieval periods, items from Egypt, Cyprus, and the Roman world; part of the National Museum of Ireland |
| National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Multiple | Weaponry, furniture, silver, ceramics, glassware, folk artefacts, coins and currency, costumes; part of the National Museum of Ireland |
| National Photographic Archive | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Library | Exhibits of photography from its collections |
| National Print Museum of Ireland | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Exhibits of contemporary and history printed art and documents, features historic printing presses |
| National Science Museum at Maynooth | Maynooth | County Kildare | Leinster | Mid-East Region, Ireland | | Displays of Scientific instruments. http://museum.maynoothcollege.ie |
| National Transport Museum of Ireland | Howth | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Transportation | Public service and commercial road transport vehicles |
| National Wax Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Wax | Irish history and cultural figures |
| Newtownbarry House | Bunclody | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Historic house | website, 19th-century country house and gardens, art gallery |
| Newmills Corn and Flax Mills | Milltown | Donegal | Ulster | Border | Agriculture | Working watermill |
| Nora Barnacle House | Galway | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | website, information, late-19th- to early-20th-century cottage family home of Nora Barnacle, wife of author James Joyce |
| Number Twenty Nine - Georgian House Museum | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | website, late-18th-century Georgian era house |
| Ormonde Castle | Carrick-on-Suir | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Historic house | Tudor manor house |
| Parke's Castle | | Leitrim | Connacht | Border | Historic house | Restored early-17th-century plantation castle |
| Patrick Kavanagh Centre | Inniskeen | Monaghan | Ulster | Border | Literary | Life and works of poet Patrick Kavanagh |
| Patrick Pearse's Cottage | Rosmuc | Galway | Connacht | West | Biographical | website, restored summer residence and school of Patrick Pearse, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising |
| Partry House | Partry | Mayo | Connacht | West | Historic house | information, 17th-century house, farm and gardens |
| Pearse Museum | Rathfarnham | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Natural history | Irish plants and animals, educators and naturalists Patrick Pearse and his brother, William |
| Phoenix Park Visitor Centre | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Local | History of the park and the area, including Ashtown Castle |
| Photo Museum Ireland | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | website, contemporary photography |
| Poet's Cottage | Camross | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Historic house | information, information |
| Portumna Castle | Portumna | Galway | Connacht | West | Historic house | 17th-century house under restoration, features the Wild Geese Heritage Museum about the 17th century Flight of the Wild Geese |
| Project Arts Centre | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre |
| Quiet Man Cottage Museum | Cong | Mayo | Connacht | West | Media | information, replica of the 1920s period cottage in the 1952 movie The Quiet Man, memorabilia of the filming of the movie |
| Radio Museum Experience | Cork | Cork | Munster | South-West | Technology | website, located in the Cork City Gaol, historic radio equipment, restored 6CK Radio Broadcasting Studio, history of Guglielmo Marconi and his Irish connections |
| Rathfarnham Castle | Rathfarnham | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Historic house | 16th-century castle |
| Redwood Castle | Lorrha | County Tipperary | Munster | Mid-West | Historic house | Medieval tower castle house |
| Rock of Cashel | Carrick-on-Suir | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Historic house | Medieval fortress castle and cathedral remains |
| Roscommon County Museum | Roscommon | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Local | Local history and culture |
| Ross Castle | Killarney | Kerry | Munster | South-West | Historic house | Medieval Chieftain's stronghold |
| Rothe House | Kilkenny | Kilkenny | Leinster | Dublin | Local | Geology, archaeology, history of Kilkenny, operated by Kilkenny Archaeological Society |
| Royal Hibernian Academy | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Art | Exhibits of contemporary art |
| Russborough House | Blessington | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Historic house | Large 18th-century house with fine art collection, fine furniture, tapestries, carpets, porcelain, silver |
| Science Gallery | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Science | Part of Trinity College |
| Sheep and Wool Centre | Leenane | Galway | Connacht | West | Industry | website, local textile industry, spinning, weaving, sheep raising |
| Skibbereen Heritage Centre | Skibbereen | Cork | Munster | South-West | Local | website, local history, impact of the Great Famine, natural history of Lough Hyne |
| Sligo Abbey | Sligo | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Religious | Ruins of a medieval abbey |
| Sligo County Museum | Sligo | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Local | County history and culture |
| Sligo Folk Park | Riverstown | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Open air | website, rural history and agricultural artefacts, 19th-century-period house, recreated village streetscape with shops and services |
| South Tipperary County Museum | Clonmel | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Multiple | website, art exhibits, county history, culture, natural history, archaeology |
| St. Connell's Museum | Glenties | Donegal | Ulster | Local | Border | Local history and culture, the Great Famine, prison cells of the late-19th-century courthouse, artefacts of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee |
| St. Kilian's Heritage Centre | Mullagh | Cavan | Ulster | Border | Religious | information, life, work, martyrdom and cult of Saint Kilian, a 7th-century saint born in Mullagh |
| St. Mullins Heritage Centre | St Mullin's | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | Local | website, local history |
| Stradbally Steam Museum | Stradbally | Laois | Leinster | Irish Midlands | Transport | website, steam, fire and farm engines |
| National Famine Museum & Strokestown Park | Strokestown | Roscommon | Connacht | West | Historic house | Restored 18th-century mansion, museum commemorating the Great Famine of 1845, walled garden |
| Swiss Cottage | Cahir | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Historic house | Early-19th-century thatched ornamental cottage |
| Thomas Dillon's Claddagh Gold Museum | Galway | Galway | Connacht | West | Multiple | website, historic Claddagh rings, photographs of local history |
| Thoor Ballylee | Gort | Galway | Connacht | West | Literary | Norman tower summer home of author W. B. Yeats |
| Thurles Famine and War Museum | Thurles | County Tipperary | Munster | Mid-West | Multiple | website Great Famine, war |
| Tipperary Agricultural and Heritage Museum | Golden | County Tipperary | Munster | South-East | Local | Also known as the Maher Farm Machinery Museum. Contains exhibits and artifacts covering Irish countryside life from the latter half of the 19th Century up to the late 20th Century. Indoor and outdoor display areas. Officially opened on the 7th of July, 2013. Museum Facebook page is here. Website here. |
| Tullow Museum | Tullow | Carlow | Leinster | South-East | Local | website, local history |
| Waterford County Museum | Dungarvan | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Waterford Museum of Treasures | Waterford | Waterford | Munster | South-East | Local | City history, culture, archaeology, Viking and medieval heritage, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity |
| Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre | Dublin | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Maritime | website, heritage of Ireland's waterways |
| West Cork Regional Museum | Clonakilty | Cork | Munster | South-West | Local | information, local history |
| Westport House | Westport | Mayo | Connacht | West | Historic house | 18th-century stately home with original contents, gardens |
| Wexford County Museum | Enniscorthy | Wexford | Leinster | South-East | Local | information, located in Enniscorthy Castle, county history and culture |
| Wicklow's Historic Gaol | Wicklow | Wicklow | Leinster | Mid-East | Prison | website, 18th-century prison |
| Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio | Howth | Dublin | Leinster | Dublin | Technology | website, vintage radios, music boxes, gramophones and other related items |
| Yeats Memorial Building | Sligo | Sligo | Connacht | Border | Biographical | website, exhibition on poet W. B. Yeats |

## Defunct museums

* Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin
* Dublin Civic Museum, closed in 2003
* Museum of Irish Industry, Dublin, closed in 1866
* Sligo Art Gallery, closed 2010