National Museum of Ireland, Natural History, Dublin
National Museum of Ireland, Natural History is a museum at 49 Merrion Square West in Dublin, County Dublin, 1.2 km south-east of the centre. Statue of Surgeon-Major Parke is within 30 m.
Opening hours
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Weekly schedule
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off "Closed temporarily"
Source: OpenStreetMap.
- Kind
- Museums
- Address
- 49 Merrion Square West
- From the centre
- 1.2 km south-east, in a straight line
- Phone
- +353 1 6777444
- Wheelchair
- Recorded as partly accessibleOne tag covering the whole place. It does not say whether the entrance, the inside, the toilets or the route to the door are step free, and this page will not say so either.
- Parking
- Shelbourne Hotel Car Park, 220 m away
- Bus stop
- Merrion Street Upper, 60 m away
Getting to National Museum of Ireland, Natural History
About these directions
Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.
Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.
How journey planning worksDestination, access and nearby stops
National Museum of Ireland, Natural History is in Dublin, County Dublin. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. No entrance has been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge. Q-Park Dawson Street is 280 m away and the map records it as open to the public.
The nearest scheduled stop is Merrion Street (2811), 60 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Merrion Street 60 m
buses 133, 82, 44, X28, X30 and X27 among othersScheduled departures from this stop
- Merrion Sq West 70 m
buses 82, X1, X2, X25, X27 and X28 among othersScheduled departures from this stop
- Merrion Row 180 m
buses 109X, 105X, 111, 103X, 115X and 109Scheduled departures from this stop
- Clare Street 180 m
buses 15B, 82, 15A, 44, 41X and X28 among othersScheduled departures from this stop
- Kildare Street 180 m
bus 700Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Dublin covers the journeys into the town itself.
Events nearby
Not at National Museum of Ireland, Natural History. These are at other venues within a few hundred metres of it.
- 18 July to 6 December 2026Free entryRembrandt to Matisse – A Celebration of European Works on PaperNational Gallery of Ireland
- 2 to 30 September 2026Free entrySeptember Tours at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare StreetNational Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street
- 17 September to 17 October 2026Free entryMasters of Irish ArtThe Oriel Gallery
- 24 September 2026TicketedHarp Sessions at The Sugar Club: Tríona Marshall, Ályth McCormack & Graham HendersonThe Sugar Club
Within a short walk
What else the map names within four hundred metres of National Museum of Ireland, Natural History, on Merrion Square West and around it.
- Statue of Surgeon-Major Parke30 mMonuments
- Office of the Attorney General30 mGovernment offices
- Leinster House70 mGovernment offices
- Government Buildings80 mGovernment offices
- Department of the Taoiseach80 mGovernment offices
- Merrion Square West90 mBike hire
Also on Merrion Square West
Merrion Square West carries 5 of the places the map names in Dublin.
Other museums in Dublin
Nearest to National Museum of Ireland, Natural History first, and the figure beside each one is how far it is from National Museum of Ireland, Natural History, in a straight line. Same point, same measure.
- National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology120 mKildare Street
- The Little Museum of Dublin360 mSt. Stephen's Green
- Zoology Museum390 mPhysiology Square
- Georgian House Museum400 mFitzwilliam Street Lower
- Irish Architectural Archive430 mMerrion Square East
- Museum of Literature Ireland590 mSt. Stephen's Green
- Irish Whiskey Museum660 mGrafton Street
- Civic Museum690 mWilliam Street South
- Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again740 mWestmoreland Street
- Illusion Museum Dublin780 mCollege Green
- World of Illusion830 mDame Street
- The National Wax Museum Plus850 mWestmoreland Street
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Where this comes from
- From the map
- The name, the kind of place, the address where the record carries one, and any website, phone or opening hours shown as recorded on the map are tags on OpenStreetMap way/231082847, and can be corrected there.
- Worked out here
- Every distance, the nearest road where the record has no address, which car park and which stop are nearest, and the order of the lists are this site’s own calculations from those records. Distances are straight lines between two points, not walks along the footpaths, and the map will route the real walk on request. A mistake in any of this is a mistake here rather than on the map.