National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History Dublin

I was lucky enough to win $50,000 in the lottery and have decided to treat my husband and myself to a trip to Dublin Ireland! We have already started planning our trip for mid July. We have booked a flight with Jetblue to stop at JFK airport. And from there we will board Aer Lingus to Dublin. We will then go straight to our luscious accomodations …

Sleep is fantastic, just saying, even on holidays. My plan today of going on a free walking tour didn't happen, for two reasons, and neither of them involved getting lost like what happened last week. Reason one, I slept in, reason two, I was to meet Ben and Elise at the Jamison Distillery at 2:00pm, which later became 3:00pm, then didn't happen. …

... on display at any point in time. Chris was also interested in a collection of scientific instruments at the National Museum of Ireland. The museum is divided across 3 buildings in Dublin (plus one building in another town). The first building, ...

We saw bog people today. Nope, not blog, bog. We went to the National Museum of Archaeology. Bog people are thousands of years old, however, through a natural preservation method of being buried deep in the  Irish marshes, still have skin (which ...

... and got to sing the Molly Malone song again. The next day, we went and saw the Famine Memorial, went to the National Museum of Archaeology and History, and took a stroll through St. Steven's Green before heading off to the famous Temple Bar so Eric ...

... a rest in the park opposite - Merrion Square and nearly fell asleep on the grass in the sun.  I moved onto the National Museum of Archeology and History - I flew through here, saw some old jewelry, Celtic Art and a huge 15m log boat some 4000 yrs ...

... starving and decided to hit the grocery store instead of the pubs. Thursday was spent doing more Dublin touristy things. We visited the National Museum of History and Archeology and the National Portrait Gallery. Now, Dublin isn't known as a museum ...

... next day, although he was past the worst of it, so I went out to see the National Gallery and the National Museum of History, which was really a giant taxidermy and skeleton show. But they had kangaroos, and all sorts of Australian marsupials. And they ...

... at some of the shops and then went back to O’Connell street to catch the hop on hop off bus to go to the National Museum of Archeology and History. I really wanted to go to one of the National Museums because I feel like you really get a better ...

... conditions were very poor and they made the people do useless work like breaking up rocks, etc. Our next stop was the National Museum of Ireland.  It was great to be able to see for myself the artifacts and displays that we had discussed in class ...

... another park and met the famous Oscar Wilde- the Irish writer.  Jumping through puddles of rain we entered the National Museum of Ireland, which in comparison is a smaller version of NYC's Museum of Natural History. There were many different species ...

... meet them at the national art school at 1300. The morning, however was my own. So I decided to walk to the national museum of textiles and design, which was way over the other side of the Liffy (past the law courts and the Jamison distillery). And ...