# The best museums in Dublin

Kilmainham Gaol, the Book of Kells and a lot of free entry.

- 96 votes · 13 items
- Aug 3, 2020 · Ronan D.
- https://even.best/en/l/3351/the-best-museums-in-dublin

## Top 13

1. **Kilmainham Gaol** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — The prison of the Easter Rising leaders.
2. **The Little Museum of Dublin** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — The city's 20th century in a Georgian house.
3. **EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — The story of the Irish diaspora.
4. **Natural History Museum** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — The 'Dead Zoo', unchanged since Victorian times.
5. **Trinity College – Book of Kells** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — The illuminated manuscript and the Long Room.
6. **National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Bog bodies and Celtic gold, free.
7. **National Gallery of Ireland** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Caravaggio's Taking of Christ, free.
8. **Guinness Storehouse** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Seven floors ending in the Gravity Bar.
9. **Chester Beatty** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Manuscripts and rare books at Dublin Castle.
10. **Irish Museum of Modern Art** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — In the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
11. **MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Joyce, Beckett and the Ulysses manuscript.
12. **Hugh Lane Gallery** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Impressionists and Francis Bacon's studio.
13. **Dublinia** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Viking and medieval Dublin.

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