National Museum of Ireland

The National Museum of Ireland is a museum of decorative arts and history located on Kildare Street, next to the Parliament of Ireland in the centre of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The National Museum of Ireland offers visitors a magnificent collection of gold prehistoric treasures.

The museum was founded on 14 August 1877 by an act of Parliament, by the Royal Dublin Society, to continue public funding and expand the museum’s activities. The museum was administered by the Ministry of Science and the Arts and, with government support, began building a new building on Kildare Street, which opened in 1890. The new museum has collections of coins, medals, as well as collections of minerals and plants. In 1921 the museum became known as the National Museum of Ireland.

In the museum you can see a great variety of national attributes of the country - weapons, furniture, silver, ceramics and glass, as well as samples of folklore and folk costumes. In the museum you can see the body of a man found in Cloniqueven in the Iron Age, which is very well preserved, he is called the Clonikavan man. You can also see numerous early Christian jewelry and relics, Celtic outfits, examples of metal forging art, including Tara Broschka, Adra Chelis, and Mayola Bell Shrine.