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EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

An interactive museum inside a restored 1820s dockside warehouse, telling the story of 10 million Irish emigrants

  • EraGeorgian building; modern museum
  • Admission€22 adult (18–64), €15 teen (13–17), €11 child (6–12), under 5 free (~$24.20 / ~$16.50 / ~$12.10); epicchq.com
  • HoursDaily 10:00–18:45, last admission 17:00 (Sep–May); opens 09:00 Jun–Aug
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Housed in the vaulted, cast-iron-columned CHQ Building — a bonded warehouse built in 1820 to store tobacco, wine and tea beside the Custom House Docks — EPIC uses 20 interactive digital galleries to trace how Irish emigration shaped world history, from famine-era coffin ships to the diaspora's later influence on politics, music and science abroad.

Practical information for EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Admission €22 adult (18–64), €15 teen (13–17), €11 child (6–12), under 5 free (~$24.20 / ~$16.50 / ~$12.10); epicchq.com
Hours Daily 10:00–18:45, last admission 17:00 (Sep–May); opens 09:00 Jun–Aug
Address CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, D01 Y6H7, Ireland

Why it matters

Ireland's only dedicated emigration museum; named European Museum of the Year in 2019

Site facts

Built
Warehouse built 1820; museum opened 2016

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Location

CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, D01 Y6H7, Ireland

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Highlights

  • 20 interactive digital galleries covering 1,500 years of emigration
  • Housed in an 1820s bonded warehouse on the Liffey docks
  • Traces Irish diaspora influence across the Americas, Britain, Australia and beyond