Museums

The Geology Museum

The website for Geological Museum – Trinity College Dublin

The Geology Department houses teaching and research collections the first of which were acquired by Trinity in 1777. Currently, the collections comprise over 100,000 specimens. The main palaeontological holdings include Irish Silurian and Carboniferous invertebrates, Mesozoic ostracods, and Upper Palaeozoic miospores. The rock and mineral collections largely date from the 1820s and contain both Irish and foreign specimens.

Several displays on topical aspects of Geology can be seen in the entrance hall of the Museum Building which is open Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. The hallway also contains skeletons of the iconic Pleistocene mammal, the giant Irish Deer, and various Irish and foreign decorative stones that make up the pillars and the staircase.

The current Geology Museum is now closed, it has moved to the Trinity Technology And Enterprise Centre (TTEC), Pearce Street. It is opened only by appointment with the Curator Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson, see his contact details below.

The Curator is Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson with whom bookings should be made (Tel: 353-1-8961477; Fax: 353-1-6711199; email: wysjcknp)

Material for academic research and exhibition purposes is available on a short-term loan basis at the discretion of the Curator.