Located in Carlow’s Cultural Quarter, just off the town’s main street, and entered through Carlow Tourist Office.

Four galleries house hundreds of items on display including: the magnificent six-meter 19th century hand-carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral, which is among the top 100 objects to view in an Irish museum; the original gallows trapdoor from the Carlow Gaol; the wooden smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; items from John Tyndall, Carlow’s 19th century scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect; Kevin Barry’s last cigarette before he was executed in 1920 at the age of 18 for his role in the Irish War of Independence; and a 340 million year old fossilised squid.