Ireland's national folk life collection, spread over four floors of a modern gallery beside a Victorian Gothic mansion and Green Flag gardens — all free to enter.
Explore Ireland's National Folklife Collection across four floors of modern, award-winning exhibition galleries. Objects, interactive audio and visual displays, rare photography and archive film depict the lifestyles, customs and traditions of rural ancestors.
Visit historic Turlough Park House next to the main galleries, a Victorian Gothic mansion dating to 1865 and the ancestral home of the Fitzgerald family.
Follow walkways through 30 acres of formal Victorian gardens, 18th-century parkland and woodland. The path along the river and around the lake gives the best views of the gardens and the round tower.
Award-winning playground set in the 'sunken garden', with a giant hillside slide, swings, climbing bars and natural play features, plus ample seating for parents.
Cycle or walk the 10km, mainly off-road Castlebar to Turlough Greenway from Lough Lannagh to the museum grounds; the route is waymarked and classed easy to moderate.
Turlough Round Tower, a ninth-century national monument, overlooks the grounds. Near the entrance gate are the remains of the original Fitzgerald residence, built in 1722.
Have a bite in the Synge & Byrne café in the courtyard, browse Irish books and crafts in the Museum shop, and see the changing art programme in the neighbouring Courtyard Gallery.
Pick up the free 'Find Peadar' and 'Woodland Explorer' activity sheets, handle objects at the Discovery Station, and join a year-round programme of free family events.
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