12noon-5.30pm Closed Mondays Formal Gardens open Museum hours. Heritage Guided heritage tours of the North Range are available from 5 June to 9 September. Please contact the museum for details. The gallery spaces are wheelchair accessible.
Visitors are welcome to avail of our adapted toilets, baby changing facilities and locker room.
Wheelchair available on request. The Irish Museum of Modern Art is housed in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the finest 17th-century building in Ireland. The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years. The style is based on Les Invalides in Paris with a formal facade and a large elegant courtyard. The Royal Hospital in Chelsea was completed two years later and also contains many similarities in style.