FAQs

No, admission is free   

Researchers are welcome. Please make an appointment by contacting the museum by phone, email or by calling into the museum.  

There is a lift to the first floor. Accessible parking spaces are located outside the front door of the museum. We have a wheelchair accessible toilet.   

There is a low-cost car park beside the museum - a ticket is required.  

No photography is permitted in the museum. If photographs are to taken a legal agreement form must be signed in advance.  

Group visits are welcome. We would ask that group visits are pre booked by contacting the museum by phoning 074 9124613 or museum@donegalcoco.ie  or by calling into the museum.  

Guided tours must be booked in advance and are subject to staff availability.   

We are happy to provide some advice to local organisations, families and individuals on the care of their objects. We encourage people to ensure the future preservation of, and public access to artefacts, by donating them to the Donegal County Museum.  

No  

Donegal County Museum is unable to undertake actual research on behalf of the public, however, we are available to provide advice on local and family history research.  We have developed a resource publication to help guide you on your search for your Donegal ancestors ‘Your Donegal Family' 

This is unique digital collection of film archive material on Derry and Donegal. It contains 90 hours of programmes, documentaries, feature films, shorts and news footage from some of the major televisions channels as well as Super 8 amateur film and home video dating back over 50 years. The archive is available for viewing free of charge without appointment.  

This is a unique digital collection of archive material relating to the islands of County Donegal. The archive provides free public access to nearly 40 hours of film, television and radio material through items such as newsreels, television and radio news and documentaries.  

The audio and visual material contained in this archive will give an understanding of the social history of the offshore islands of County Donegal from the 1950s to the present day. The archive is available for viewing free of charge without appointment.  

We are not sure. Because dinosaurs lived from 245 to 66 million years ago, most of Ireland's rocks are the wrong age for dinosaurs, either too old or too young, making it nearly impossible to confirm dinosaurs existed on these shores. Only two dinosaur fossil bones have been found in Ireland, both from the same location on the Country Antrim coast.