Museum Of Curiosities

Museum Of Curiosities 🕯️ Dublin's Strangest Museum
🎪 35 Pembroke Street Lower — Dare to Enter?
🎟️ Tickets: https://museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets
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Welcome to The Museum of Curiosities — Dublin’s newest and most unique destination for connoisseurs of the odd, the macabre, and the marvelously misaligned. Nestled within the walls of 35 Pembroke Street Lower, our museum is a living Wunderkammer, a modern-day cabinet of curiosities bursting with objects that defy explanation and delight in their strangeness. As Ireland’s first Museum of Curiositi

es, we offer a rare chance to experience the bizarre like never before. Wander through shadowy halls lined with shelves of bottled specimens, charmingly dreadful taxidermy, arcane medical instruments, mummified oddities, haunted dolls, sideshow wonders, Victorian relics, sorrowful clowns, and curios that flirt with the edges of reason. Every item has a story — a whisper from the past, a fragment of forgotten history, or a nod to the deliciously bizarre. The Museum began its life in the digital ether — a humble Twitter account sharing peculiar images from the depths of the internet and archives. It quickly gathered a following of likeminded lovers of the unusual, and over the years, it morphed and twisted its way into a physical form. At the helm is the elusive cabaret performer Monsieur Pompier, whose love for the surreal and the uncanny has shaped every corner of this strange little world. Whether you are a seasoned oddity hunter or a curious newcomer, the Museum of Curiosities invites you to step inside and lose yourself in a world that dances on the edge of absurdity. This is no ordinary museum. This is a home for the overlooked, the forgotten, the grotesque, and the glorious. Come one, come all — and prepare to be delighted, disturbed, and utterly transfixed.

Old drinking bottle with a large stopper whose handle is shaped like a devil clinging to its side. Beware the demon drin...
24/06/2026

Old drinking bottle with a large stopper whose handle is shaped like a devil clinging to its side. Beware the demon drink 😈

Dog Brush Holder 👅A wooden dog-shaped clothes brush holder, with the brush cleverly doubling as its tongue, 1950s.
23/06/2026

Dog Brush Holder 👅
A wooden dog-shaped clothes brush holder, with the brush cleverly doubling as its tongue, 1950s.

Foot Binding🦶🏻Lotus shoes were tiny embroidered slippers worn in China to fit bound feet, where girls’ feet were tightly...
22/06/2026

Foot Binding🦶🏻
Lotus shoes were tiny embroidered slippers worn in China to fit bound feet, where girls’ feet were tightly wrapped from childhood to reshape them into a narrow, curved “lotus” form.
The result was severely shortened, arched feet meant to be hidden inside delicate shoes often only 7–10 cm long. Movement was slow and painful, yet the style became tied to beauty and status in elite society for centuries before gradually fading out in the 20th century.

Devil Sculpture 😈There are many names for the devil, including Satan, Lucifer, El Diablo, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkn...
21/06/2026

Devil Sculpture 😈
There are many names for the devil, including Satan, Lucifer, El Diablo, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness, Mephistopheles and Old Nick.

Bearded Marionette, France, 1920s.
20/06/2026

Bearded Marionette, France, 1920s.

Piranha 🐟Part of our "Creatures of the Deep" cabinet upstairs, these sharp-toothed South American freshwater fish are ac...
19/06/2026

Piranha 🐟
Part of our "Creatures of the Deep" cabinet upstairs, these sharp-toothed South American freshwater fish are actually mostly omnivorous scavengers and far less deadly than popular culture suggests.

Jellyman 🪼Discovered in the River Liffey following Storm Lorenzo in 2019, this unusual specimen was found to contain DNA...
18/06/2026

Jellyman 🪼
Discovered in the River Liffey following Storm Lorenzo in 2019, this unusual specimen was found to contain DNA from the Immortal Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) as well as unusual amounts of human DNA.
Scientists believe it was a mutation caused by climate change and ocean pollution. The piece you see is a faithful reconstruction of the Liffey specimen. Its counterpart was already heavily decomposed by the time of its discovery.

Wonderful creation by Lorcan Cassidy, currently on display at the Museum of Curiosities in Dublin.

"Inside Dublin’s Museum of Curiosities as conjoined lambs and historic royal cake go on display."Wonderful piece in Iris...
17/06/2026

"Inside Dublin’s Museum of Curiosities as conjoined lambs and historic royal cake go on display."

Wonderful piece in Irish Examiner which covers a few of the newer additions to the collection. 💀🕯️

Dublin’s Museum of Curiosities is expanding with rare, unsettling artefacts collected from across Europe and beyond

The Lioness 🧡Lionesses do most of the hunting for the pride. Working together in coordinated groups, they stalk and surr...
17/06/2026

The Lioness 🧡
Lionesses do most of the hunting for the pride. Working together in coordinated groups, they stalk and surround prey, often using teamwork to drive animals toward hidden hunters before making the final chase.
Their cooperation allows them to take down animals much larger than themselves, such as zebra or wildebeest. This spectacular lioness once lived in a zoo in Germany.

Mr Potato Famine Head 🥔
16/06/2026

Mr Potato Famine Head 🥔

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