Check out our range of Exhibition centres around Ireland, featuring art galleries and workshops in dance, music and dramatic art. Also featured are many tourist attractions featuring interactive dispalys.
Galway Arts Centre
47 Dominick Street, Galway City, Galway
This building was built in the 1840′s as a residence for the Pearse Family. The most famous member of the family was Lady Augusta Gregory, of Coole Park, playwright and patrons of the Irish Literary revival. On her frequent visits to Galway she used to stay in this building with her sister. The building came in to the possession of Galway Corporation in the 1940′s and housed civic offices and the Council Chamber until 1988. Since 1988 the building has operated as an Arts Centre. The Galway Arts Centre consists of two galleries which house up to ten exhibitions of national and international acclaim a year.
The Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Dublin
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is one of the most exciting developments in the Irish arts world.
The museum presents, through its permanent collection and temporary programmes, international and Irish art of the 20th century with associated educational and community programmes.
Performance, theatre and music are included in its work, with particular emphasis on the overlap between the visual and performing arts.
Dublins Viking Adventure
Essex Street West, Off Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin
You have the opportunity to travel through time at Dublin’s Viking Adventure, an exciting, live and interactive experience of life in Viking Dublin. The Norse guide takes you on a fascinating journey through a Dublin of long ago. Walk the narrow streets of the Viking Town of ‘Dublin’ where you can chat to the locals, observe their daily work and even experience the sounds and smells of the city, imaginatively and accurately recreated and brought to life.
Located close to Wood Quay, the heart of the 9th and 10th century Viking city, the Viking Adventure also houses an extensive collection of artefacts discovered during the excavation of this site, considered to be the most important of its kind outside Scandinavia. These excavations revealed a mighty store of Viking artefacts, and provided information that has made Dublin’s Viking Adventure as authentic as it is entertaining. An engaging exhibition to be enjoyed by all historians, students and anyone interested in Dublin’s cultural heritage.
The Skellig Experience
Skellig Heritage Centre, Valentia island, Kerry
Visit the Skellig Experience Centre on Valentia Island and discover the magic of the Skelligs for yourself. Get an insight into the life of 6th century monks, the amazing seabirds, the underwater life of the Skelligs, the lighthouse and the lives of their keepers.
Facilities include an audio visual programme, a personal sound tour (five languages), a full refreshment area, car parking facilities and a shop.
Prince August Toy Soldier Factory
Kilnamartyra, Macroom, Cork
There is no fake machinery or actors; it’s the REAL working factory, with REAL workers and REAL processes. Our Demos give first hand learning experience that includes visual and tactile methods. Persons are asked to take part in all the manufacturing process, with casting, moulding, and spin casting and labelling the Toy Soldier figurines.
Irish National Stud And Japanese Gardens
Tully, Kildare, Kildare
The Japanese Gardens of Tully were created between the years 1906 and 1910. Devised by Colonel William Hallwalker, a wealthy Scotsman of a famous brewery family, the Gardens were laid out in their paths of beauty by the Japanese Eida and his son Minoru. Planned to symbolise the life of Man, the landscapes are now of international renown and are acclaimed as the finest Gardens in Europe.
The Irish National Stud Company was formed in 1945. Its primary aim was to promote the interests of the Irish Bloodstock industry with a view to improving the quality of bloodstock in Ireland by providing the services of the highclass stallions on the farm.
Cashel Folk Village
Dominick Street, Cashel, South Tipperary
Cashel Folk village is a delightful series of informal reconstructions of various traditional thatched village shops, a forge and other businesses, together with a penal chapel situated in a confined area within the town of Cashel, near to the famed Rock of Cashel. An extensive display of signs and other commercial memorabilia add to the appeal of this pleasant display of local history.
Bantry House & Gardens and Armada Exhibition Centre
Bantry, Cork
Located in Bantry, County Cork, Bantry House is the former home of the Earls of Bantry. Egerton Shelswell-White, who is a descendant of the Earls, and his family now live here.
The house is surrounded by seven terraces of wonderful gardens and approx 80,000 acres, so there’s lots to explore. As you tour the house you’ll see a magnificent collection of tapestries, furniture, artefacts and antiques
