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The Garda Museum

The museum and archives of An Garda Síochána, in the Treasury Building at Dublin Castle — and, as at September 2026, closed to the public.

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At a glance

Name
The Garda Museum
Kind
Museum Run by a police service
Operator
An Garda Síochána
Where
Dublin, Ireland
Facts last checked against sources
13 September 2026

What it preserves

An exhibition on the history of An Garda Síochána and on policing in Ireland before 1922, with photographs, documents and a police library. The archives hold material supporting police-related research; formal records are kept separately at the Garda National Repository under statutory record-management requirements.

Its police-history scope

Irish policing across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the forces that preceded the Garda Síochána. The museum sits in the building where the transfer of Dublin Castle took place in 1922.

Public access, as officially stated

Whose history this holds

Sources

  1. The Garda Museum at Dublin Castle

    An Garda Síochána · Museum · link verified 2026-09-13

    SCOPE: the Garda Museum and its archives. The force’s own page, read directly. Supports that the museum is "located at the Treasury Building, Dublin Castle"; that it holds "an interesting exhibition about the history of An Garda Síochána and information on policing in Ireland before 1922", with photographs, documents and a police library; that formal records are kept at the Garda National Repository under statutory record-management requirements; and — AS AT 2026-09-13 — that the museum "closed to the public for Monday 15 June 2026" for "the six-month duration of the Presidency", with the force stating "We look forward to welcoming visitors back to The Garda Museum in January 2027". The access statement is time-bound and is cited as such; no opening hours or admission prices are taken from this page.