Due to popular demand, and to coincide with Nollaig na mBan, ‘Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women’ will return from 4 – 18 January 2019 at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
The IWC and EPIC come together to host the IWC’s Nollaig na mBan event in praise of women writers around Ireland. The event coincides with the relaunch of EPIC’s ‘Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women’ exhibition.
This February at EPIC we are delighted to welcome the Gymboree team to our Tiny Tots Tuesday! Bring your little ones along for a morning of music, dance and games in this lovely, interactive workshop on Tuesday 12th February.
This January we are kicking off the new year with a messy play session and we are delighted to welcome back Karen from SENSEable Tots for another fun sensory workshop for your little ones, on Tuesday 8th January.
We’re delighted to announce a bonus Tiny Tots Tuesday just one week before the big day! Bring your little one along for a morning of festive fun and magical music with the Singaling team, on Tuesday 18th December.
We’ve joined forces with the Gaiety School of Acting to present a Christmas themed Parent and Toddler Theatre class. Join us for a morning of imagination, storytelling and adventure as we engage, bond and experiment with drama and performance!
An intergenerational activity for parents, grandparents, and children to learn about the Battle of Mount Street Bridge. We’ll be using a combination of technology and history to uncover this fascinating story, which is one of the most significant battles of the 1916 Easter Rising.
As part of the Jonathan Swift Festival, which celebrates the great Irish tradition of satire and subversion, we’re exploring the work of a contemporary satirist, Martyn Turner. Open to the public from 29 November – 7 December.
For our final Europeana Story Collection event on 24-25 November, we want to focus on collecting your stories on around the theme of Migrant Women.
Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women is a new exhibition with Herstory and the DFAT running at EPIC from 12-25 November.
In our November Tiny Tots Tuesday we’ll be exploring music and play at this adorable workshop with the wonderful Singaling team! On Tuesday 13th November, here at EPIC.
Paintclub presents a Halloween special ‘Paint & Wine’ evening, where you’ll have the chance to re-create this Dracula inspired painting beneath Dublin’s streets, in the beautiful historic vaults at EPIC.
A family Paintclub workshop for adults, teens and older children to re-create Dracula inspired paintings in the light filled vaults at EPIC.
Dr. Niamh Shaw, space explorer, artist and communicator will speak about Curiosity and its place in science and technology as part of Space Week 2018.
Embrace your inner-Dracula and have a fang-tastic Halloween party, this Tuesday 30th October. Come dressed as your favourite spooky character, do creepy arts and crafts, play games and most importantly have loads of fun!
This Halloween, Catherine McGuinness will be returning to the museum for a seriously slimy science lab. Come along, get creative, get a little spooky and learn something new in this fantastically disgusting workshop.
This October we welcome back Karen from SENSEable Tots for a fun, sensory workshop of exploration and messy play!
From the Napoleonic Wars to the 1917 Revolution, discover the fascinating events in Russia through the eyes of these remarkable Irish women.
Discover Dublin’s best museum & highest-rated visitor attraction this Culture Night and explore the unforgettable story of how the Irish influenced & shaped the world in 20 interactive galleries.
Join Ellen Alden as she recounts the story of our great great grandfather Florence Burke, a famine era emigrant who, like countless other Irish men, fled starvation only to soon find himself fighting at the front lines of the American Civil War.
In our August Tiny Tots Tuesday we are welcoming the lovely Sarah Sparkles for a morning of storytelling, puppets, singalongs and everyone’s favourite – bubbles!
At this fun art workshop, we’ll be making our own books. What will you write inside? Whether you want to come up with your own fantastical fairy tale, a biography written by your pet or a journal about you…the only limit is your imagination!
We’re inviting the public to come along on the weekend of 18th and 19th August to share their stories of migration through objects, as part of Europeana.eu Storytelling Collection Day.
Our Discovering and Inventing Gallery highlights the amazing Irish contribution to Science and the Cosmos! On the 21st and 22nd of July we’ll have a drop-in creation station in our Education Zone for the kids to make their own astro art.
This July we’re celebrating all things science at EPIC with a special Tech Tour outlining the amazing technology and design used to make our museum!
This Tiny Tots Tuesday in July, we are delighted to join forces with The Gaiety School of Acting to present a Parent and Toddler Theatre class!
As part of the Tall Ships Festival we’ll have an art dock for the creative kids in your life to craft their own ships; from tall ships to pirate ships!
Join us for an evening with acclaimed author Michael Smith as he speaks about the Irish explorers at the heart of the gripping story of Antarctic exploration.
This year begin your Bloomsday Festival journey at EPIC and The Bakehouse. This special Bloomsday breakfast and tour combination will provide a heady Joycean feast for the senses!
