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We went to the Archaeology&History museum first. This museum has a large collection of objects from pre-historic Ireland including an amazing collection of gold; a treasury with great Celtic objects; a special exhibit with Irish bog bodies; some objects from Medieval times; a collection of fine Egyptian stuff and for some weird reason ceramics from ancient Cyprus. They also have a collection Irish Viking objects but sadly that part was closed because of structural problems in the rooms.
The Bronze age gold collection, the bog bodies and the Celtic treasury are my absolute favourites. It was especially great to see some bog bodies for real because I had not seen any (except in books) before.
It isn't a very big museum but the collections are terrific and the museum itself is quite beautiful too.
The Natural History is known in Dublin as the "dead zoo". It's a nice dusty, old, Victorian collection of stuffed animals in a building that makes a perfect setting. They also have the largest collection of original glass models (see picture of a jellyfish model) in this world. I totally love those so I'm quite envious!
Totally worth a visit if you like old museums and stuffed animals!
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