14:30 - 16:30 | Wednesday 29 October 2025
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Halloween Crafts at the Museum
Enjoy some drop-in crafting activities inspired by all things Halloween!
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Bicycle. NMI Collections F:2011.3
Child engages with exhibition image and activity booklet
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Discover the familiar and the surprising at the National Museum of Ireland in Turlough Park, Castlebar.
Schools and Teachers
Find imaginative workshops, tours and classroom activities to create inspiring and meaningful learning experiences for students
Find out moreFamily day out
From the woodland playground to bee inspired art, make memories together at Turlough Park in Co. Mayo
Find out moreThe Gardens
Reconnect with nature, unwind and refresh in the award-winning gardens of Turlough Park.
Find out moreThe Irish Folklife Collection amounts to c.35,000 objects complemented by extensive archive documentation which includes a specialist library, field recordings and image collections.
The aim of the Irish Folklife Division is to collect and preserve objects representative of the material culture that forms part of the traditional way of life of Ireland.
Did you know?
This tin lantern was made by Patrick McDonagh - ‘heir apparent’ to the kinship of the McDonaghs of Roscommon and adjoining counties. In 1950, Patrick McDonagh took up his tinsmith tools to make this lantern especially for the Museum. He had stopped making lanterns in the 1930s.
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Turlough Park,
Castlebar,
Co. Mayo,
F23 HY31
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