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Garda Museum
The Garda Museum and Archives can be found at the Treasury Building of Dublin Castle. When you visit the Garda museum you will be greeted with an exhibition about the Garda or An Garda Síochána and information about what policing was like in Ireland before 1922.
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Garda Museum is free to all visitors
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Open Monday - Friday 10am-2pm
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Loctaed behind the walls of Dublin Castle
The staff consists of only two people: a Sergeant and one civilian employee.
In the museum you can photographs and documents outlining the history and the development of policing in Ireland during the 19th/20th centuries. The library in the museum library contains a number of interesting garda-related publications.
How to get there and other free attractions!
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The Hop-on Hop-off Tour will drop you on Nassau Street which is right beside the Archaeological Museum of Ireland
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Also on Nassau Street is the National Library and Trinity College where the Book of Kells is located.
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In Merrion Square Upper is the Natural History Musuem and Leinster House.
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St. Stephen's Green and across the road is the Little Museum (free with a Hop-on Hop-off Ticket)
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At Cork Hill is Dublin Castle home to The Garda Museum & Chester Beatty Library
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At the Royal Hospital there is IMMA which is the Museum of Modern Art
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On Sarsfield Quay is the Decorative Arts and Hisotry Museum at Collins Barracks.
