The National Famine Museum – Strokestown Park

The new, immersive National Famine Museum brings compelling stories from the Great Irish Famine powerfully to life for visitors of all ages.

State-of-the-art exhibits and interactive displays draw on local accounts and documents, as well as intriguing objects and national perspectives, to shed light on the darkest chapter in Ireland’s past.

Explore the parallel lives of Strokestown Park’s aristocratic landlords and their tenants during the Great Irish Famine at our state-of-the-art National Famine Museum.

In this compelling, highly interactive new museum, breathaking local and national stories from this tragic period in Ireland’s past are brought dramatically to life.