Sligo County Museum contains a fascinating collection of exhibits spanning the centuries. Its showcases Sligo's rich stone-age history, with items including  flint arrow heads & axes as well as the more “modern”  large firkin of 100-year-old bog butter. The Yeats Room contains footage of W.B Yeats funeral cortege as well as various manuscripts, photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings associated with the local poet William Butler Yeats including a copy of his 1923 Nobel Prize winning medal. There is also a display of artefacts and memorabilia associated with Countess Constance Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth. 

Please pay us a visit at any stage, our opening hours are,

October - April 9.30am to 12.30pm Tuesday to Saturday

May - September 9.30am - 12.30pm and 2pm to 4.50pm Tuesday to Saturday

Closed: Sunday and Monday

you can contact us on 071 9111679 or email us at sligomuseum@sligococo.ie