The County Museum, Dundalk is located in a beautifully restored late 18th Century warehouse in the Carroll Centre at Roden Place in Jocelyn Street. As a Designated Museum it is the only museum in the county that can display items from the National Collection.
A service provided by Louth County Council, the museum opened in 1994 and offers an extensive programme of permanent exhibitions, temporary displays, drama presentations, music recitals, lecture and film.
The Museum collection comprises over 70,000 objects ranging from the proverbial (Viking) needle to an anchor. Among the highlights are:
A magnificent three-wheeled, heinkel motor car made in Dundalk in the late 1950s;
the first Olympic Medal won by an Irishwoman (a Bronze won by Ardee’s Beatrice Hill-Lowe in archery in the 1908 Games in London);
Oliver Cromwell’s shaving mirror;
a leather jacket or jerkin worn by King William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne
items collected by Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, discoverer of the fate of Franklin and one of Ireland’s greatest explorers.
a multi-award winning exhibition marking the industrial and engineering history of county Louth
