Our Sell-Out Family Tour is Back This Halloween
Irish author Bram Stoker needs your help!
His famous character Dracula, a notorious vampire, has somehow escaped from his book in our Storytelling Gallery and into the vaults of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Can you and your family help track him down and spell him back from whence he came?
Be quick, this tour sold out quickly last year!
Suitable for: Children aged 6 – 12 years old
Location: EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Dates: 26th October – 1st November 2026
Times: 10.00am, 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4.30pm
Prices: €24 for adults, €16 for children (up to 12 years)
We have a very special host for our Halloween Family Tour.
This Halloween family tour includes a walkthrough of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. You will work as a group to locate clues hidden in our galleries to Dracula’s whereabouts. Along the way you’ll discover more about Bram Stoker’s life and the famous novel Dracula that shaped how the world imagines vampires today.
You’ll also stop off for a Storytelling session, where Bram will bring to life some tales of creatures from Irish history and folklore that may have inspired Bram’s creation, and work together to create your very own vampire myth, suitable for the Ireland of today.
The tour is led by a guide who plays the role of Bram Stoker and involves an activity hunt to find objects hidden in the museum, storytelling session and two interactive activities, one a spell casting and one an imagination game to come up with a new vampire story. Feel free to fress up in your scariest Dracula or Halloween themed outfit to complete the theme!
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Something New This Midterm
The Halloween Family Tour will look a little different this year, because Dracula has found new hiding places amongst our new galleries.
Last October, the museum underwent a transformation in its first three galleries, reopening to the public in March 2026. Now is your chance to discover this upgrade to our visitor experience – we have a feeling Dracula will definitely be using it as a hiding spot. It is the most significant transformation since the museum opened, showcasing our commitment to being a world‑class cultural attraction and a global leader in storytelling. The new galleries expand the exhibition footprint by 2,000 square feet. Visitors will now experience more immersive multi-sensory storytelling, improved accessibility, and enhanced multilingual engagement.
New ‘Isle of the Senses’ Sensory experience
The upgrade includes a new ‘Isle of the Senses’ sensory experience, evoking the Ireland emigrants carried with them when they left the island. Visitors are immersed in the sights, sounds, and scents of the landscapes left behind – from the green hills of Kerry and the Giant’s Causeway to Wicklow’s waterfalls and the Cliffs of Moher. Plenty of places for Dracula to cause mayhem – our little Van Helsings will need to have their senses sharp to seek him out!
An Adult Halloween Tour
Explore the Irish Origins of Halloween
Join us as we leave daylight behind and explore the darker side of our mythologies and histories at EPIC!
Halloween is fast approaching and it’s time to delve back in the origins of Irish traditions and explore how Samhain became Halloween. Irish ghost stories and funerary traditions travelled with the Irish diaspora and often became entangled with local customs to form entirely new traditions over the centuries.
Dates: 26th October – 1st November 2026
Time: Daily at 1pm
Location: EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Cost: €24 for Adults, €16 for Children
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