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Dead Zoo Lab, National Museum of Ireland

Smithfield

Wander through a Victorian time capsule packed with 10,000 taxidermied creatures, from Irish elk to glass sea creatures. The Dead Zoo is gloriously old-school: no screens, no interactive displays, just cabinets of curiosities frozen in time.

Free admission
10,000+ taxidermied animals
Historic Victorian building
Extinct species exhibits

Tips

🦌small but impressive collection
🐺see the extinct Tasmanian wolf
perfect rainy day refuge

Dead Zoo Lab, National Museum of Ireland

Collins Barracks, Benburb St, Smithfield, Dublin, 7, Ireland