LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks

This Pride month, explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens in our brand new tour.

Sunday, 1 June 2025
15:30 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Saturday, 7 June 2025
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Sunday, 8 June 2025 - Children and Youth Action Group Family Day
15:30 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Saturday, 14 June 2025 - Stoneybatter Festival
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Sunday, 15 June 2025 - Stoneybatter Festival
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Saturday, 28 June 2025
12:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour

Sunday, 29 June 2025
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour
15:30 LGBTQIA+ Tour

On Saturday 24th May, the National Museum of Ireland launched a new LGBTQIA+ tour to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum, which was passed in May 2015.
This new guided LGBTQIA+ tour views the exhibitions through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way. While the tour is not a complete or comprehensive LGBTQIA+ history of the collection at Collins Barracks, we aim to highlight the rich diversity of lives and experiences on the island of Ireland across time through some of the objects on display. Spanning the establishment of the Barracks itself to Ireland’s passing of the Marriage Equality Referendum in 2015, highlights include the non-conformist chair by world renowned designer and architect Eileen Gray and artefacts belonging to some of the women of Ireland’s revolutionary period.