LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks

Name: LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks
Start: 2025-12-28T15:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-28T16:15:00+00:00
Location: National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History

Schedule

Sun Dec 28 2025 at 03:30 pm to 04:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History | Dublin, DN

Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens on our brand new tour, available on
Sunday, 28th December 2025
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.