Life, Disease and Death in Collins Barracks

Drop into the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks for an evening of tours, trails and tactile sessions exploring the 300-year history of Collins Barracks.

Discover the chills, ills, and kills in Collins Barracks 300-year long history. Find out about the trials and tribulations of life as a soldier living in the Barracks from the 1700s until the late 1900s, with a focus on (ill-) health, as well as the transition from one of Europe’s oldest occupied Barracks into one of Ireland’s National Museums.