LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks

Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens on our brand new tour, available on the following upcoming dates:
Saturday, 8th November 2025
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks
15:30 LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks

Saturday, 6th December 2025
14:00 LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks
15:30 LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks

Tours will begin in Reception at Collins Barracks. Admission is free and booking is not required. However, places are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Children must be fully supervised by a parent or adult who is in loco parentis.

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. This tour is not a complete or comprehensive LGBTQIA+ history of the collection at Collins Barracks, but an effort to highlight the rich diversity of lives and experiences on the island of Ireland across time.

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.