🌈 Transgender Day of Visibility 2026 🌈
Honouring trans joy, resilience, and visibility today and every day. 💛🤍💜🖤
Go behind the scenes the creation of the National Museum of Ireland’s LGBTQIA+ Tour:
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A life‑sized taxidermied hippopotamus, fully wrapped in protective plastic, is suspended by straps and chains as it is lifted through a wide, newly opened section of a brick wall.
Q: How do you get a 🦛 hippo out of a museum?
A: Very, very carefully. 👀
Go behind the scenes with Anna Massignan to see how thousands of specimens were safely moved during the Dead Zoo decant.
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Hispano-Moresque lustreware, 19th century (DC:1896.28), National Museum of Ireland
Art History researcher Foivi Nomikou explores Spanish Lustreware ceramics at the National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks. Her photo essay shows the power of object-focused learning. Read more: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog #CulturalHeritage #Museumology #Ceramics
Collage of vintage boxes and tins containing old items like matches, cigarettes, medicines, and documents.
🎁 Ever heard someone say, “It’s a shame to tear the packaging”?
We agree! At the National Museum of Ireland, boxes and containers tell stories as fascinating as what’s inside.
Discover more in our latest blog: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #RegistrationCorner #Museumology #MuseumBlog
A person standing indoors beside a small wooden gandelow boat with white sides and a reddish-brown interior. The boat holds wooden oars, ropes, and a wrapped sail or canvas. The individual is holding one oar upright. The setting appears to be a workshop with white brick walls and exposed pipes.
Thrilled to welcome a gandelow boat to our collection! This traditional craft, plus detailed plans, was generously donated by its builder, Patrick Beautement, strengthening Ireland’s maritime heritage
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Ryan working in archaeological excavation (left), and in museum stores (right). Image by Aisling Collins and Hannah Preston © National Museum of Ireland
Museums are powered by people with diverse skills!
From LA fashion shows to museum registration—read this inspiring career story: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
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Flint purse. Image by Kyle Tunney. © National Museum of Ireland
Joanne Hamilton, Documentation Officer at the National Museum of Ireland, shares the story of an ornate fire flint purse—known as a Mechang. This fascinating object reveals the artistry and cultural significance of personal accessories: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
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The Council for National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) stall at the National Ploughing Championships. Image by Connie Bettison © National Museum of Ireland
New Blog Alert!
Connie Bettison from the National Museum of Ireland shares her experience at the National Ploughing Championships with CNCI—highlighting how library services connect Ireland’s heritage with the public #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog #registrationcorner #Museumology
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NH:1892.49.1 being photographed as part of the Natural History Decant Project. Research image by Anna Massignan © National Museum of Ireland
Over 9,000 specimens safely tracked & stored as the National Museum of Ireland refurbishes the Dead Zoo. Faith Nolan shares how location control supports conservation, research & exhibitions. #Museumology #RegistrationCorner #NMIBlog #NaturalHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
The 23.5 feet long Béal Deirg (Belderg) currach being loaded for transport. © National Museum of Ireland.
Discover how we recently took a major step in the development of our new traditional boat gallery at Turlough Park.
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A collection of minerals from left to right: labradorite, calcite, chalcedony, chalcopyrite, tourmaline, lepidolite and quartz geode. Research image by Aodhán Ó Gogáin © National Museum of Ireland
What risks lie in our geological collections?
Aodhán Ó Gogáin reveals hidden hazards—from environmental threats to handling issues—that could jeopardize these irreplaceable specimens.
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In the latest Traditional Boats of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way blog, curator Noel Campbell explores sea fishing devices in the archive, highlighting Irish language records.
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Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland.
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The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland
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#NMIBlog #MuseumBlog
Butter print in shape of evil eye, Irish Folklife Division
May flowers at Kiltullagh, Co Galway
May Queens, Irish Folklife Division
It's nearly May Day, let's celebrate the Irish way!
Do you decorate a May Bush for Good luck? Or light a bonfire & dance?
Keeper of the Folklife collections, Clodagh Doyle, discusses the traditions associated with welcoming the summer on May Day #NMIBlog
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Detail of a Crucifixion scene in St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, p. 266. © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
Explore the fascinating early medieval Irish depictions of Christ on the Cross. Discover the beautifully illustrated Gospel-book (Cod. Sang. 51) & the Crucifixion plaque from Rinnagan, Co. Roscommon. #NMIBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology
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Fig 1 (A&I)1897:84 Electrotype reproduction of Boscoreale Treasure goblet. Research image by Faith Nolan © National Museum of Ireland
Are you fascinated by the macabre?
Would you drink from a cup covered in skeletons?
Faith Nolan from the NMI reveals the story behind a goblet adorned with skeletons and Memento Mori
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An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.
In the mid-9th century, amidst fierce Viking raids, scribes in northeast Ireland copied a Latin textbook written in 6th-century Constantinople, this manuscript, is key to understanding the Irish language of the time. #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology
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the famous high cross shaft from Banagher, Co. Offaly (1929:1497)
Detail from the shaft of the Banagher cross: A stag with its leg caught in a rectangular trap
Detail from Cod. Sang. 1395 p.422, Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen.
Caught in a trap? This deer can’t walk out… Celebrating the re-mounting, conservation, and scanning of the beautiful Banagher Cross shaft. Soon, it will be on display at the Words on the Wave exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. #NMI2025 #NMIBlog www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
Vellum fragment from Saint Maurice d’Agaune CHN 64/2/88 with kind permission of l’abbaye de Saint-Maurice d’Agaune.
Is this evidence of the earliest relic of St. Brigid?
Follow the journey of her name from a Swiss abbey to a must-see exhibition in Dublin!
Don’t miss this rare chance to see history up close. #CuratorBlog #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog Read more: 🔗
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