Women's Museum of Ireland

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray

Trailblazing Modernist Designer

Our Mission

The Women’s Museum of Ireland was founded in 2012 to promote the formal recognition of the role of women in Irish history as well as the role of Irish women abroad. The museum hopes to encourage the continuation of these successes in a new generation of women in Ireland and abroad.

Recent news

  • 2 March '13

    'Monsters of Creation': Snapshots of Women in Higher Education

    “A learned girl is one of the most intolerable monsters of creation” – Saturday Review, 1869

    Join us on March 4th as we …

  • 1 March '13

    Ladies who launch

    The Women’s Museum of Ireland is delighted to announce the launch of their campaign for Ireland’s first Museum of Women’s History this Monday 4th March in Trinity College’s Long Room Hub…