Enhance Your Visit

Guided tours of the Museum and its exhibitions are available for free.   

Tours should be booked at least two-weeks in advance by contacting the Museum on 074 9124613 E museum@donegalcoco.ie and they are subject to staff availability.  

Schools, please note the following:  

• You should bring at least one adult per 15-20 students  
• Large groups/classes may be divided into smaller groups for tours   
• Teacher/leader must remain with each group at all times and are responsible for their behaviour.   
• Students should bring as few bags as possible  
• Schools can also book the following events in the museum:                     

Archaeology Box Workshop   

Through our Archaeology Box, you will learn and find out about the Archaeology of County Donegal. The Archaeology box contains artefacts real and replica from the Stone Age to the Viking period. Children and adults are able to handle the artefacts and learn about the archaeology of County Donegal. This service is offered free of charge but prebooking is required. Suitable for 2nd class and above.                                                                 

‘Donegal Museum Detectives’ Backpack  

This fun and educational backpack is available to borrow, free of charge on your school visit to the County Museum. It contains a variety of activities which have been designed to engage children with our exhibitions. After completing the activities, you will have your Donegal Museum Detectives Passport stamped and there will be something for you to take home. Suitable for 1st Class and above.   

Donegal County Museum also offers Outreach services to your school.  

Please contact the Donegal County Museum on 074 9124613 E museum@donegalcoco.ie for any bookings or further information  

Archaeology Box Workshop                                                             

Through our Archaeology Box workshop, you will learn and find out about the Archaeology of County Donegal. The Archaeology box contains artefacts real and replica from the Stone Age to the Viking period. Children are able to handle the artefacts and learn about the archaeology of County Donegal. For a facilitated workshop with the Archaeology Box please contact the Museum. This service is offered free of charge and is subject to availability.  

Pop Up Museum                                                                                     

The Museum can arrange to create a Pop-Up Museum in your classroom or school. A Pop Up Museum is a museum, which exists for a few hours on one particular day and is created by the children, with assistance from the museum. The mission of the Pop-Up Museum is to create conversations between people of all ages and walks of life. The children are invited to bring along an object relating to a particular theme and Museum staff will assist them to write a label to describe what the object means to them. The object is then put on display. At the end of the session, the object is returned. Themes can include “The Oldest Thing I Have’ and “My Culture”.   

This service is provided free but pre booking is required and is subject to staff availability.  

Talks/ Workshops                                                                                 

Donegal County Museum can give presentations on a range of subjects from ‘Donegal and WWI’, ‘County Donegal in 1916’,  ‘Donegal Partition and the Border’ and many other topics relating to Donegal’s History and Heritage. This service is provided free but pre booking is required and is subject to staff availability.  

Donegal County Museum has developed a number of Exhibitions, which are available for loan to schools. The exhibitions consist of pop-up information stands on themes such as the ‘Flight of the Earls’, ‘The Plantation of Ulster’, ’The First World War’, ‘The Ulster Covenant 1912’ and ‘Connection and Division: Donegal 1910-1930’, etc.   

For more information and bookings, please contact the Donegal County Museum. This service is offered free of charge.  

The Museum has published a variety of booklets which will be useful for those researching or completing projects on the history and heritage of County Donegal, which are available free of charge to teachers:  

• A Guide to The Plantation of Ulster in Derry and Donegal  
• Plantation Architecture and Landscape in Derry and Donegal   
• The Legacy of The Plantation in Derry and Donegal  
• From Leaders to Exiles – related to the exhibition on the Flight of the Earls  
• From Conflict to Division - Donegal 1919 - 1925  
•  'UNCOVER & REDISCOVER' Donegal  
•  ‘YOUR Donegal Family’  

For further information on these resources available please contact Donegal County Museum.  

Email: museum@donegalcoco.ie  

Our general tour is designed to give an introduction to the museum and its environs, and an overview of the current exhibitions, focussing on a number of key objects in the collection. We greatly encourage questions and interaction during our tours.

(45-60 minutes) 

Our introductory tour is designed to give a background to the museum and its environs, and an introduction to the current exhibitions. 

(20 minutes)   

Looking for something else? With advance notice, a theme-specific or exhibition-specific tour may be arranged. Please feel free to contact us with your ideas. 

(30 minutes)  

Groups are free to come and visit the museum without booking a tour; we just ask that you let us know in advance that your group will be visiting us. Please contact the Donegal County Museum on 074 9124613 or email museum@donegalcoco.ie  

Through our Archaeology Box, you will learn and find out about the Archaeology of County Donegal. The Archaeology box contains artefacts real and replica from the Stone Age to the Viking period. Children and adults are able to handle the artefacts and learn about the archaeology of County Donegal. This service is offered free of charge but pre-booking is required.  

This fun and educational family backpack is available to borrow, free of charge on your visit to the County Museum. It contains a variety of activities which have been designed to engage children and families with our exhibitions. After completing the activites, you will have your Donegal Museum Detectives Passport stamped and there will be something for you to take home.  We also have a Museum postcard featuring old photographs from County Donegal,  that you can use to tell your friends and family about your visit to the Donegal County Museum. 

This project was funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.