Drop in hands on straw weaving workshop for families. The Armagh Rhymers provide a colourful performance to celebrate the traditions and rituals of Imbolc. A host of activities, tours, and trails can be found at Collins Barracks as part of the Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women festival!

Collins Barracks (Irish: Dún Uí Choileáin) is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of Dublin, Ireland. The buildings now house the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History.

The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks is located at Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7. We regret that the Asgard exhibition will be closed on select dates in January 2025.

The old barracks, which had billets, stables, a riding school, drilling grounds and firing ranges, is currently being transformed sympathetically into galleries for exhibitions, reserve collections, conservation laboratories, libraries and offices.

Explore the history of Collins Barracks: the spectacular Dublin home of the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History. Collins Barracks was an army base for some 200 years before being renovated for use as a museum.

Collins Barracks is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of Dublin, Ireland. The buildings now house the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History.

Collins Barracks in Dublin City, named after famed Michael Collins, could be said to be the National Museum of Ireland's largest artefact, having had a unique history all of its own in another life. It housed both British Armed Forces and Irish army garrisons over three centuries.

Sep 10, 2013 · The National Museum (Collins Barracks) houses the national Decorative Arts and History collection, charting Ireland’s economic, social, political and military progress through the ages.

Thousands of people experienced Ireland’s first-ever outdoor 360-degree immersive light and sound display at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. Light, colour, and sound filled the space as abstract shapes, images of the natural world, and an imagined world explored the theme ‘Immerse Yourself’.

This former military barracks is home to two fascinating and completely diverse collections: the decorative arts collection, which encompasses silver, ceramics, glassware, furniture, clothing, jewellery, and coins, and the military history collection, which tells of Ireland’s military and revolutionary past.