Dublin museum days

Niamh Dooling

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Honestly, I end up in a gallery or a museum more weekends than not, dragging whoever I can find along with the promise of a pint or a bowl of pasta after. These are the ones in and around the city that I keep going back to, from the big national spots to the small quiet rooms nobody tells you about, with my own daft two cents on each.

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Name	Address	City	My take
1Little Museum of Dublin	15 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, D02 Y066	Dublin	The guided tour is only short but it flies by, lovely for bringing visiting pals who think Dublin history is boring, it is not.
2Irish Museum of Modern Art	Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, D08 FW31	Dublin	My actual happy place, the gardens alone are worth the walk out and there's always something brilliant and strange on in the main galleries.
3EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum	CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, D01 T2V3	Dublin	Sounds like a tourist trap but it's not, it's interactive and surprisingly emotional, I cried a small bit near the end and I'm not even sorry.
4National Museum of Ireland Archaeology	Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 F277	Dublin	The bog bodies get me every time, dead unsettling in the best way, and the building itself is a proper stunner to just stand in.
5Museum of Literature Ireland	86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, D02 YY88	Dublin	Lovely little café attached too, so you can sit with a coffee after seeing Ulysses copy number one and feel very cultured about it.