The epic museum was another one of my favorite tourist attractions while in Dublin. For anyone who's interested in learning more about Irish history and culture this museum is definitely for you. What I really appreciated about the stop is that it's modernized and on the newer side (for a museum) so it does feel much more updated with the technology/exhibits so that it meets modern times. We purchased our tickets in advance, but they also allow you same-day/in person purchases. I don't know if we got lucky the day we came or if they have a cap on how many tickets they sell, but it did feel like the group/people allowed in was buffered, which kept the experience feeling more intimate/less crowded. There is plenty to see and multiple floors to explore so we were easily here three hours walking all about and taking in the different exhibits. My favorite exhibit was where they paid homage to the musical influences and artists of Ireland. I found this section to be the most interesting for me personally and it was well done. Honestly, there was so much to see, you could easily come back a few times to really take it all in. For the price it is worth it and a great way to spend a few hours in Dublin. I would highly recommend stopping here. read more

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I am at the museum as a person who has no idea of Irish history or culture. Everything was new to me as an Asian-American. If you love history, you will love the epic museum. I accompanied my team for a group social event here that we got to learn so much about Ireland and the people and how much they went through. Also learned about how many Irish people are in the world. Since I am East Asian I am not very familiar with a lot of this in fact, I am probably the first in my family to ever visit Ireland. The museum is set up to be and walk-through at your own pace and you get a little passport that you can stamp to make sure you didn't miss any exhibits and take home as a keepsake for your visit Ireland. read more

I heard about this Museum experience from a friend that suggested that it was a must see while in Dublin. As a solo traveler and loving every minute of being the captain of my own ship when traveling I planned this visit rather last minute. I purchased the ticket the morning of and got to choose the time of day I could go. Being an early morning Queen I picked the earliest time hoping that it would give me the chance to experience everything without a massive crowd. I braved the Irish winter wind and walked a mile in a half getting there in perfect timing. I was greeted instantly, and the staff was kind and went over the details of the experience as well as handing me a passport book that is a guide to each section that you experience. The traveler in me instantly got excited as it was the perfect "map" so to say. Once an experience would be completed you would get a stamp on the passport which was such a clever idea. The museum was filled with so much history, facts and interactive areas. I loved being able to participate in things as it added an element of truly being immersed in the experience. My favorite area was a room that had visuals of the world, galaxy and images of the sun and fire. It gave off such cool vibes. I also loved the section where there was a film monologue of Irish immigrants and their lives/ experiences. The staff was great, the museum was fun and I learned a lot. I would highly recommend this place to anyone traveling to Dublin. After experiencing this you will not think about Ireland the same again. With its rich history and strong willed people, you cant help but admire this beautiful culture. read more

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Definitely one of the more interesting museums I've been to. I loved the passport idea through the various rooms. We went late in the afternoon, around 4pm, which resulted in no crowds which was nice. While the museum covers a lot of ground I did find it to be somewhat scratching the surface. read more

Stunning museum that is modern and interactive while still teaching you the history that you went there for. 5 stars without a doubt! read more

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Gayle and I really enjoyed our visit here, especially with its multi-media depictions of various aspects of the global influence of the Irish Diaspora. It's all wrapped up in an EPIC passport that leads you around to various rooms and subjects. History, music, literature, sports, journalism, etc., it's all there with deep dives available at each stop. And lots of variety. We completed our stamps in a little over an hour, but it's very easy to spend more time here. EPIC's intent to deepen our understanding of the global Irish hit the mark, and certainly expanded my knowledge past Irish Bars, Lucky Charms/Irish Spring, and Mary Robinson. The museum in located within the lower level. On street level was a very nice gift shop, plus some lunch choices. Don't forget to visit (separate tickets required) the "The Jeanie Johnston: An Irish Famine Story" ship just outside EPIC. That somber part of Irish History will only add to your EPIC experience. read more

Well worth it! If you have any interest in Irish history or heritage, EPIC is an absolute must-visit. They recommend an hour and a half, but I'd definitely plan for at least 2-3 hours to take everything in without rushing. It's incredibly informative and really makes you pause and reflect -- emotional at times, but in a meaningful way. If you're also planning to do the Jeanie Johnston tour on the ship, give yourself another full hour. Both experiences together provide a powerful, eye-opening look at Irish emigration. Highly recommend! read more

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This is a great interactive museum about Irish history and the impact people of Irish ancestry have had on the world. The history of the building is also interesting and it is explained in the museum. Be sure to walk along the waterfront to see the famine art work. read more

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Really excellent museum that showcases the history of Irish immigration and the immigrants who changed the world. There are several interactive areas, and plenty of videos showing historic or otherwise super interesting events. My kids had a blast stamping their passports throughout the exhibits. It was a well done museum overall. read more

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Really fascinating, interactive museum with 20 different sections. They give you a passport to get stamped at each section which was fun! The various sections had a good mix of digital interaction, videos, and things to read. I learned a lot! The space felt really clean, and easily laid out. There are lots of food spots just above the museum, so perfect to grab lunch before/after. read more

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A really solid and fun museum - we came in and while exhibit 1 and 2 were closed, we found plenty to fill our 2 hour trip there. They have a lot of interactive portions which keep things fun, as well as lot of audio and visual items to keep you engaged. It would be fun for ages 12+ in my opinion. Staff onsite was kind and the gift shop at the end had nice and unique options. read more

Absolutely loved this museum! I stopped in one afternoon during the week with a couple friends and I really enjoyed it. The museum was very interactive. They give you a passport booklet in the beginning and you stamp your passport after every room you walk through. The rooms are all themed to specific parts of Irish history like sports, politics, immigration, etc.. It is easy to follow along and the order of the themed rooms just felt very logical. Overall, I liked how they had everything set up. I did learn a lot about Irish history and I'm glad I stopped here as my one museum in Dublin on my trip. read more

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - Dublin, D

Wow! This was the highlight of Dublin. This museum is modern and well-designed. As you walk through the sections, it's a very informative walk-through of the history of the people, most of which is presented through videos. You also learn about famous Irish people, inventions, their culture, and how it influenced and changed other parts of the world. We spent over two hours in the museum, and it still was not enough time. We are eager to return. . read more

Excellent way to learn about the history of Ireland. Well laid out, interesting and interactive, underneath a beautiful building with many options for lunch. read more

Not really a "museum", more of a visual/interactive screen experience. I suppose it's nicely designed, but I didn't find it engaging.

Who doesn't love learning about all the wonderful contributions the Irish contributed to this world? If you ever get to Dublin, this is a must do! Explore the rich history of the Irish who became significant contributors to the world. Each section dives into the history topic, whether it's science, music, dance, art and so on. Stamp your "passport at each stop! It was amazing, informative and fun! I'm not posting too many photos because this is an experience you must see in person! read more

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Excellent museum in Dublin. They have an interactive "passport" you carry with you to get stamps at every exhibit. Very fun and unique experience. Learned a lot about Irish emigration. At the end you can add your Irish ancestor's names to the wall. read more

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The Good: located on Custom Hall Cay on the River Liffey, this is a large place. Many exhibits. Some interactivity (when the system works). Plenty of bench seating for those needing to take a break from all of the standing. Clean space too. Bad: Built for larger groups so that there is more space than information. Do not expect to find opportunities to deep dive into history. Most exhibits barely scratch the surface of this otherwise fascinating and complicated country. read more

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is one of our top experiences in Dublin Walking distance from our hotel, Hotel 7 We purchased on-line entry tickets and also schedule an hour w Genealogist; very important to reserve Dublin activities while still in the US We also made several on-line restaurant reservations Genealogist assisted us with data on GG... Grandfather Edmund Burke read more

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The EPIC Museum tells the story of the Irish diaspora (why people emigrated, where they emigrated to, how they brought their culture to the country to which they emigrated, and the accomplishments of Irish immigrants in the countries to which they emigrated). It's a very interactive museum - each room feels very different. It's not huge, but you can spend more or less time here, depending on your interest and how much time you have! I found it interesting and unique and well worth a visit when I was in Ireland for the first time last week. A museum with a specific focus and a unique approach. read more

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Very well done and many interactive exhibits. Loved the map is a passport and on your journey you can get passport stamps. Creative! The lighting is well done and so many facets of why and where emigration occurred and continues. We spent over 2 hours here just going thru the rooms. Very glad we went and experienced it! read more

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An amazing museum with some wonderful history. If you are skeptical, PLEASE give it a chance. Some amazing interactive exhibits that are sometimes incredibly beautiful. read more

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I'll be honest, EPIC was scheduled for our last day in Ireland and was pretty much just planned as a filler. I didn't expect much. Coming out, it is my top recommendation on museums to visit in Dublin! You'll start by being given a "passport" to collect stamps around the museum. A simply hook that worked on me. I made sure to hit every room and sometimes just walking into the room was enough to get you to explore. I appreciated the step wise approach EPIC took to walk down Irish history and influence across the globe. I can also say it literally has something for everyone as it was more than just history and politics. You get sports, song and dance, politics, and war all wrapped up within a handful of easy to navigate rooms. Presentation is delivered by all media and variety from room (or portion of room) to room. You read a bit here, watched a bit there, and listened elsewhere. Time seemed to stand still (in the positive respect) in some areas to allow you to adequate pace the museum in about an hour. Enjoy! read more

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The Irish Emigration Museum should be visited by everyone who visits the country. It shares the history of Irish Emigrants- why people leave, why they stay gone and what those who have left have contributed to the world at large. You get a passport sorts and are enviro stamp it after going through each room. To be honest, the museum gets tiresome after a while because the format is mostly the same for all rooms - stuff to read, videos to watch and maybe an art piece of sorts. Given that there are well over 15 rooms, this gets old quickly. Not withstanding, I think the information is important and I recommend going once. read more

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Amazing! Wonderful experience. So well done, and all the staff were knowledgeable and helpful.

Walk through exhibit setup in an old warehouse, took about 90 minutes to walk through and see everything, tells a story of famous people of Irish decent and the not so famous where they came from and where they ended up, some interactive exhibits and some you watch short presentations. Well worth the money, we had the combo ticket with the Jeannie Johnson immigration ship, adds about an hour to your day, gives a great overview of the migration during the famine. Must see when you are in Dublin read more

Definitely recommend visiting while in Dublin! Super interactive with topics to entertain everyone. read more

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The one-on-one genealogist consultation at the EPIC Family History Centre was excellent. I was blown away with the kindness, passion, encouragement, in-depth knowledge and wisdom of history and genealogy and that was shared. Although, I still have dead ends in tracing my Irish ancestors, due to lack of accurate resources, I was provided links and alternative resources to find accurate information. Book consultations online well in advance. Consultations must be booked a minimum of 24 hours in advance with a minimum of 48 hours notice for cancellations. You can book consultations for thirty, fifty, or eighty minutes. The EPIC museum provides insight as to why so many have left Ireland and the influence those have left on the world. You do not have to purchase a ticket to the museum to also do the genealogical consultation. The tickets to the museum are valid for another visit within ten days. You are given a locker code to store personal items and there is a small gift shop located in the museum. You are given a "passport" which you can stamp in each gallery. read more

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This museum wasn't around last time I was in Dublin, and I was excited to do something new. I spent maybe 6 hours over the course of 2 days there, which is maybe more than most people, and I'm sure you could be there even longer. Make sure you have enough time that day to go through it in as much detail as you want so you don't feel rushed through. The museum is large and there are so many things to read and interact with. It's particularly poignant if you're of Irish descent, as the museum is about Irish emigration. There's a free audio guide you can access through your phone which is a great addition to the experience. Would highly recommend setting some time aside to go. read more

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - Dublin, D

This was our final stop of our Dublin tour, and one of that we highly recommend every visitor to Dublin experience. It tells a wonderful, poignant, melancholy story of emigration from Ireland. The design of the museum is fabulous and would be a great place to take children as it is very interactive. We downloaded their free app and listened to the preview of each room before entering the room. This gives you a great idea of what you should be looking for or things that you can do in each space. They also offer an audio tour with headset that I imagine would be great as well. At the end you come out into a great food court so if you are looking for a bite to eat there are options to please everyone! read more

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Fascinating look into the Irish emigration story and its effects across the world in entertainment, politics and culture. We got tickets very close to the opening on a Thursday morning and got in before much larger tour groups began filing in. Its use of multi media to present the story was fantastic. The 2 young kids with us loved stamping their passports at each exhibit. As a bonus, we were starving after finishing the museum and there are lots of options to eat in this building. There are plenty of seats to share with locals on their lunch break. In addition, there is a tourist information desk at the entrance with tons of maps and brochures with a friendly and helpful guide. read more

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Awesome interactive museum. I left with a much better understanding of the Irish and their impact in the world. Highly recommended.

How dare this call itself a museum. Bleak, soulless, fake plastic tree vibes. A waste of time and money. I have no idea how this garbage has such high reviews. I felt exploited by the whole experience - 20 euros for an hourlong ish "exhibit" that is not even a museum, just a bunch of screens with very little information. Highly Instagrammable "aesthetic" set ups but with no substantial knowledge to offer on particular waves of Irish immigration - which is crazy because that's what it claims to be!! They tell you at the counter it's 20 euros because you can keep your ticket and come back within 10 days, which made me think that must be because there's just so much to do... couldn't be further from the truth. A one-track experience ushering you swiftly through mostly blank rooms with photo ops and then there's a gift shop. Extremely questionable historiography. Whitewashed and glossed over to the point that recognizing the human suffering involved in much of emigration cannot happen. You enter a room at one point, for example, about border crossings and the tasteful minimalist wall displays have questions in various languages like "have you ever committed a crime?" Yuck. Not to mention the truthfully insensitive photo opps celebrating that people were deported or convicted to penal colonies in Australia. Missionary work and other colonial projects are unquestionably celebrated, of course, and never challenged because that might offend the tourists. This "museum" truly just serves to make Irish diaspora tourists feel like they're a part of something because Rihanna also has Irish ancestry. And as an Irish diaspora tourist, I felt swindled. Coming from a family who left Ireland during the great famine, I expected this could be a place where I could learn more about the great hunger, its historical context, etc. But there was nothing more than a single room entitled "Hunger, Poverty, Injustice" or some nonsense that vaguely mentioned among other events that people left Ireland due to hunger. No sociopolitical analysis, no accounts, virtually nothing talking about actual Irish diaspora cultures, just a nod. Are you kidding me? They had a whole room dedicated to Irish emigrants who went on to be criminals and just a plaque saying that Irish people left due to hunger. I feel especially bad because employees say they're being mistreated... and I can't imagine they even have that much to do. read more

It was ok. If you have a few hours to burn and nothing else to do (kinda hard to imagine in Dublin) then this is an ok way to spend a few hours. Don't make a trip of it tho. Definitely not worth the money. read more

One of the main reasons my mum & I decided to come here was because of a flyer available at our Hilton Garden Inn (located right next door to this museum) which mentioned free admission available for 3 days in exchange for a piece of St Paddy's day parade plastic. So when mum & I went to exchange our Hat & feather boa for a ticket, one of the ladies pointed to the staffer who was serving us and said, "That was Louis's idea and he's made it part of our museum's environmental/ recycling initiative." So it was really cool to meet the person who originated the idea! I really enjoyed this museum tremendously!! It was so interesting, interactive and taught me so much about the Irish diaspora and how they were dispersed around the world. It also bought home how many more folks of Irish heritage are in the world rather than actually currently living in Ireland today. Some of the things I especially liked at this museum were: - in the Music section, there were these footsteps with directions on the floor teaching you the traditional Irish dancing steps - The wooden benches had sayings carved into them, relating to the room they were in - The interactive detective video game for the "notorious" Irish was so much fun! I only played 2 games and got both my guess correct - Another fun interactive video game related to whisky and Irish liquor (I got 4/5) - The saying all lit up in Neon, at the start of the museum stating, "We all come from somewhere" - Great video by the founder - All the art installations were fabulous In short if you have a spare 2 hours in Dublin, then would recommend coming and checking this museum out! Yelp 120 / 2019 Review nos 1599 in my history!! read more

You could easily spend 2-3 hours in this museum with all its interactive exhibits. Absolutely worth a visit. As someone who gets bored in museums, this experience was unlike any other one. Entertaining and informative. read more

This place lives up to its name. At EPIC, stunning visuals tell the story of Irish emigration and influence. You'll take your own journey through history as you learn about life in Ireland, departure to new worlds, and Irish influence on the rest of the world. The journey begins with you being issued a "passport". This well-designed booklet contains a map of the museum with each room shown. Each room opens up to the next one in the series, so you see things in the order that the creators intended. As you walk through each room, you can place your passport into a device that stamps the corresponding spot on the map. At the end of your visit, you'll have a passport full of stamps that show your journey. Pretty rad. The exhibits are beautifully designed - both the rooms themselves as well as the displays. Most of the displays are interactive, and I found the material to be interesting, albeit way more information than I could absorb. My favorite exhibit was a sculpture showing the progression of forms of overseas travel. On one end are simple sailing ships, and moving across to the other side, you see bigger sailing vessels, steam ships, early airplanes, and finally the modern planes that we use today. An artistic expression of how far technology has come and how far it has yet to go. This is not your typical museum. Best of all, if you have the Dublin Pass, admission has already been paid for. If I have the chance, I would love to come back and experience the journey again. read more

Excellent museum that aims to tell a cohesive story of the root causes and resulting impact of Irish emigration on both a national and international scale. I really enjoyed the breadth of content in this museum - it ranged from fine arts to sports, from sociology to humanitarian aid. There's definitely something for everyone here Plan your visit 1) early and 2) not on Saturday or hordes of large children may ruin any change at being able to hear the exhibits' audio properly. The museum's content is probably 40% audio, which makes it awfully challenging to experience its entirety when boisterous visitors surround you. This presentation structure was surprisingly unique, but can serve as a huge double-edged sword. read more

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I did not like this at all and wish they didn't call it a museum. This was a bunch of video screens showing mostly brand new videos of actors dressed for the times. Other than some bottles in one section, I do not recall seeing any "old". I guess young kids might enjoy this but I fell like I paid €20 to walk around a huge basement to see a collective 45 minutes of a documentary. The 200ish year old building was the coolest part for me. I think they should rename it "EPIC The Irish Imagination Experience" read more

Great museum, lots to see, read and experience. You need at least 2 hours (and your head might still hurt from all that you learn). If they allow reentry I recommend going when the food places in the same building are open so you can take a break and be leisurely. Most were closed when we went on a Sunday. read more