Donegal County Museum, County Donegal, Ireland

5Seamus Murphy 5:00 PM Feb 8, 2015

Museum Trip out of the rain.
I went into the Museum to get out of the rain one day recently and they had a massive World War 1 exhibition on. It was interesting to see what tools were used and uniforms were worn etc. I am a History buff anyway but it was done in such a way as to be easily understood even by schoolchildren who happened to call in while I was there. The only fault with the Museum is the size of the building is small but they do pack in a lot into that space and upstairs they have some of the permanent exhibitions of local interest. This building was originally a "work house", then a local Hosptial and how they did all that in this space beats me.There are artifacts going back to Charles the first coins etc upstairs and lots of exhibits from the famine and early centuries. The staff are friendly and helpful and very patient with some of the younger visitors as you would expect from professional people. Car parking is not great and the only blessing is the Orchard Inn opposite has a large car park and they do a very nice lunch if you needed on your visit to the Museum. Now if the Government ever get money again this place could do with an extension to house more interesting exhibits.

3Sharon S 5:00 PM Aug 17, 2013

A little disappointing!
This would have been a much better experience if the displays had been in chronological order. They sort of jumped around over the years and were sometimes hard to follow if one wasn't familiar with Irish history. The staff were very friendly and helpful though although one receptionist didn't seem to like us looking at a video on the "troubles" and suggested we view something else ,then went ahead and logged us out of the video we were watching on the IRA/UVF. Perhaps she felt it reflected badly on the Irish.? Otherwise worth a visit to this museum.