National Gallery of Ireland - Education Dept. Review

Too many rooms closed for jobs. Bad lighting of the works

Free museum with clean restrooms. Many great works. The caravaggio exhibit is excellent ( but there is a 15 euro charge less with student/senior discount for the exhibit)

Very well organized, certainly among the museums to visit in Dublin

Tired of Busy Dublin ?
well step in here and enjoy the Art on display from all over the world from different relevant periods of time. It's a quiet place to enjoy the Art and it's atmosphere well worth the visit

Portrait done by a student at St Laurence College hanging in the National Gallery

Very good. We visited while the Vermeer exhibit was there and it was very well organized and interesting.

Wonderful glorious a joy to behold and it's free!!!!!!

Went there with my advanced English course as a study trip. We walked around as groups of 5 roughly.
It was very nice there, although a bit easy to get lost (our own fault). 'Guards' there are friendly, one of them came up to us and told us some fun facts.
There is an escalator (lift) as well as food.
Overall pleasant experience.

Nice building, interesting works of art, if it rains, which is more common in Dublin, certainly a good place to look at beautiful things when drying

One of Dublins great treasures, try to go in January as the Turner watercolour collection is only on view then,

Great gallery. Loads yo see and some real gems. Was not too busy. A beautiful busilding inside and out

Free entry, area for children to draw, cafeteria. Very interesting.

It was pretty good but the current construction work kept me from seeing as much art as I wanted to. Also the layout of the gallery is kinda unclear. I didn't know if there just wasn't that much national art in the gallery or if I somehow couldn't find my way to the next hall.

Chilled out safe atmosphere with friendly staff, nice coffee shop and lovely clean restrooms.

For a free museum, it is better than expected and very well managed. A lot of collections including millennium arts

Not a regular visit so was very impressed with this exhibition. Enjoyed a very good lunch in restaurant also.

Big and well thought out design, but not many non-irish famous and important artworks.

A fun place!! Awesome exhibits, and friendly staff. Neat/scary mirror maze.

Brilliant for kids & adults, great free fun in Dublin City.

Beautiful. Well worth the visit. The building itself is as beautiful as it's contents. And can't ever get enough of the portrait room. Ensure I visit it every time I go.

Much more modest than the Prado in Madrid or the Louvre in Paris, it is a cozy museum with some valuable pieces in its permanent collection, and interesting interesting news in its temporary collections.

A pleasant place to visit and take in some immense works of art.

It is great that for the months of July and August, the gallery is offering free guided tours of the most notable pieces (including works of Monet, Caravaggio) every weekday at 2:30pm. Would recommend this for any visitors, even if you are new to the world of art.

Newly revonated to an impeccable standard. A massive improvement. Gorgeous building with some very interesting and beautiful paintings. Well worth a visit. Has a handful of painting from well-known masters and if you are an Irish person you will get to see many paintings you are familiar with. The pictures are well presented including the information beside each piece.

A great selection of European paintings from 14th century to mid 20th century. Important examples of their period (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Picasso etc) and lesser well known artists. All with free admission and housed in impressive architecture - what's not to love?

It's a great place, really your can enjoy all work of art. I recommend it amply!!!

The art work was amazing and they change the displays every so often so we can visit again and again without seeing the same pictures.

It's a fab place to visit - great exhibitions brought to our door step (recent "Sorolla"), portrait of the year on display and great coffee shop to sit and relax in when all done.

National gallery of art, there are many paintings and exhibitions from the most classic to futurism.
The exhibition is quite dispersive and is the only drawback of the experience. Free entry. So if an exhibition is free, everything is fine.

Renovated in an excellent way, it has a collection that can be visited easily in 1 hour and a half
The Irish painters and the section dedicated to portraits are interesting

Such vivid art work, really eye opening to the world in so many different perspectives

Small collection. Postcards (regular size) are the most expensive I've seen at any museum which is disappointing.

Amazing place, wonderful frames and magic histories about the past in the world!

Nice museum. Well kept. Salt vast, divided by ages. Obviously different rooms dedicated to Irish artists. Among the best known painters Picasso, a Monet, a Caravaggio (not reported in the works do not miss the museum guide), Renoir. We were with the kids, I did not think of going there, instead being close to the natural history museum and being free entry we entered. They took their audio guide (sin only in English) and enjoyed their visit. There is also a creative area for children, where they can draw with the material made available. And then a great bar!

A wonderfully varied selection of art in an amazing setting. A wonderful asset to the city and free admission to everything, except special events.

Free. A little of each style of painting on 3 floors. The Italian painting of the 15th and 16th did not leave me indifferent.

Excellent permanent collection and temporary exhibition for free. The taking of Christ by Caravaggio is unmissable, so if you don't have time enough to explore all rooms, go at least for it.

I've got my teenage kids into it.
Without any complaints.
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So beautiful pieces ! Very interesting about any Irish artists possibly unknown to the world.

And I was surprised by the amount of important works. My wife and I love museums and saw van Gogh, Cezanne and other important names. Important frames for the history of world art.

Every city needs some good free galleries and this is more centrally located than Dublin's other major art museums. Sadly, but to be expected, quality of art exhibits just cannot compare to other museums across Europe (Spain, France, UK etc). It s worth visiting and revisiting for Dubliners but skippable for a tourist especially if well travelled.

The museum was varied and interesting. Older and newer art. Jack Yeats was surprisingly distinctive.

A great variety . And top quality paintings. Best of all, it's free. A must for art lovers.

Nice museum to do. For all tastes. Little more: free.

Very good collection of European paintings, very polite staff and other facilities

I called in to spend an hour with some familiar paintings, but ended up exploring further, cancelling all other plans, and spending most of the day in the Gallery. I would happily do it again.

Beautiful architecture & a good selection of art. Free & has two entrances.

Really nice, big, and easy to get lost in. It is great for any art lover. I usually like art museums but found this one a tad bit boring. None the less, it's free so I recommend checking it out!

Lots of art all under one roof and it's free! Great cafe too.

A wonderful museum - with free entrance. A must see for anyone even remotely interested in art. My personal highlight of the collection (which is great overall) is Caravaggio's Taking of the Christ.

Smallish galery with very good temporary exhibitions. Saw drawings by DaVinci. Will visit again.

The gallery has many paintings, from many artistic periods. Admission is free and is kept very well.

Very small gallery because many closed rooms, however very beautiful works!

Fantastic Caravaggio exhibition , bathrooms were a disgrace for a Gallery of this caliber

Large gallery spaces with a decent collection but absolutely confusing to navigate. I never found several collections I would have liked to see.