The Team at the Galway City Museum would like to thank all our visitors for their support during 2021. We look forward to seeing you over the Christmas break. Please note our Christmas and New Year opening times below and read about our latest exhibition developments and ongoing outreach projects. Have a safe, healthy and [...]
We are delighted to declare the new exhibition, Old Galway in Colour OPEN! Created in collaboration with Prof. John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley of NUI Galway, this exhibition features old photos of Galway which were colourised using the latest in A.I. technology. Visitors are invited to come and take a new look at Galway [...]
Every few weeks we shine a light on a different object from our collections that you may not have seen before. This week we have a Singer sewing machine. Singer sewing machines have a long and rich history, dating as far back as 1850. These beautiful machines have evolved over the years but still stand [...]
On 6 December 1921, a party of Irish and British delegates signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London. The Treaty and circumstances around its signing were the subject of enormous controversy. Sinn Féin TDs debated the Treaty in a series of private and public sessions between 14 December and 7 January; the ruptures that emerged during [...]
We are delighted to be working with Prof. John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley of NUI Galway on a new exhibition entitled Old Galway In Colour due to open next week. This photographic exhibition featuring Galway city and county includes old photos colourised using the latest in A.I. technology. The colourisation process brings new life [...]
Come celebrate our seas with us and dive beneath the waves of Ireland's wild Atlantic to explore our ocean, from seashore to deep sea. Free to visitors, The Wild Atlantic – Sea Science gallery features new exhibitions on understanding climate change, research surveys at sea, and the SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay The ocean is [...]
Every week we shine a light on a different object from our collections that you may not have seen before. This week, because it is Halloween, we are giving you a glimpse of one of our spookiest objects in store - a cloth doll from the Ardfry Collection. Information about the doll is limited only [...]
Every week we shine a light on a different object from our collections that you may not have seen before. This week we are looking at a Victorian Pill Making Machine, a fascinating part of medicinal history. This object was kindly donated to the museum in 2009. It is likely of an 18th century date [...]
Every week we shine a light on a different object from our collections that you may not have seen before. This week we have a card game called The Counties of England. This boxed set of the game was published in England by John Jaques & Sons Ltd in the 1920s. The Counties of England [...]
