National Museum of Ireland - Country Life
National folklife collection in purpose-built galleries beside Victorian Turlough Park House in Mayo.
Opened in 2001, this is the branch of the National Museum of Ireland devoted to the Irish Folklife Collection, some 35,000 objects documenting rural and coastal life between roughly 1850 and 1950. The permanent galleries are arranged thematically around the natural environment, work on land and water, trades and crafts, the home, communities and the cycle of the year. Displays combine tools, furniture, costume, boats and thatched-roof construction with photographs, field recordings and archive material.
The museum occupies a four-storey purpose-built gallery block set into the lakeside terraces of Turlough Park, linked to Turlough Park House, a Victorian Gothic country house of 1865 designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The grounds extend to about thirty acres and include restored gardens, a lake and a nineteenth-century round tower and church nearby. Temporary exhibitions are shown in the Courtyard Gallery and elsewhere, and admission to all galleries is free.
Highlights
- Irish Folklife Collection of around 35,000 objects
- Thematic galleries on trades, crafts, home and community
- Victorian Gothic Turlough Park House of 1865
- Thirty acres of parkland, lake and restored gardens
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