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Photo Museum Ireland The National Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ireland. Supporting photographers since 1978. Formerly The Gallery of Photography Ireland.
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Proudly funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. Photo Museum Ireland is the leading centre for contemporary photography. With the support of its active membership of over 400 independent photographers, the Museum serves as a resource base and informal meeting point for everyone interested in photography. Members of Photo Museum Ireland receive:

Access to hire of darkrooms, artists digital studio and other facilities
Discount on all Museum courses
Priority booking for events
Invitations to at least 3 private views per year
5% discount in the Museum bookshop

Corporate members receive:

all of the above plus invitations to each private view
acknowledgment of support in the Museum reception area. Membership fees are as follows:

Individual: €100.00 p/a
Concessions: €50.00 p/a
Corporate: €750 p/a
Visitor*: €10.00


*Visitor Membership allows for two days in the darkroom and is valid for one month.

🗓️ Save the Date: IPN Online: Photography – Practice & ProgressJoin curators from Photo Museum Ireland, Belfast Exposed,...
18/10/2026

🗓️ Save the Date: IPN Online: Photography – Practice & Progress

Join curators from Photo Museum Ireland, Belfast Exposed, Belfast Photo Festival, and Source Magazine as we present key findings from the 2026 Artists’ Needs Survey. Meet the recpient of the Photobook Development Award, and hear about the realities of photobook publishing and sector sustainability across Ireland.

Free to attend. Registration required.

Register now 👉 https://ow.ly/ia2C50ZOqXS

Department of Culture, Communications and Sport The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Arts Office Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

How do we photograph, represent and remember the dead?As Halloween approaches, join photographic historian and librarian...
18/10/2026

How do we photograph, represent and remember the dead?

As Halloween approaches, join photographic historian and librarian Orla Fitzpatrick for for a special talk on Photographing Death at 7pm on Thursday 29 October at Photo Museum Ireland.

Drawing on her research into Irish post-mortem studio photography, Orla explores the history of images of the dead and how photography has shaped the way we understand death, memory and loss. Exploring intimate memorial portraits and images of conflict, this talk considers the ethical questions that arise when we look at photographs of the dead — and how museums can approach these sensitive subjects with care.

Part of the city-wide Dublin by Dusk initiative, this timely evening talk looks beyond the macabre associations of Halloween to reflect on photography’s powerful role in how we confront death, preserve memory and honour the lives of those who are gone.

Book now via the link in bio 👉 https://ow.ly/Qcil50ZXHjT

This event is supported by the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum Scheme and Dublin by Dusk. Dublin by Dusk is a new city-wide initiative that invites you to experience Dublin city as it stays open late on the last Thursday of every month.

Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Dublin by Dusk

Seoladh Irisín: “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” Fearann Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann fáilte chroíúil romhaibh chuig seoladh a...
17/10/2026

Seoladh Irisín: “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?”

Fearann Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann fáilte chroíúil romhaibh chuig seoladh an irisín “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” leis an ealaíontóir Elena Ní hArgáin. Is tionscadal grianghrafadóireachta é seo a dhéanann taifead ar phobal aiteach na Gaeilge. Le trí bliana anuas, tá Elena Ní hArgáin tar éis grianghraif a ghlacadh de ghníomhaíochtaí grúpaí éagsúla sa phobal sin atá ag cruthú cultúr bríomhar aiteach trí mheán na Gaeilge, cuir i gcás damhsa seit aiteach le hAerachAiteachGaelach, grúpaí sóisialta an Queercal Comhrá, an chéad champa samhraidh Gaeltachta le haghaidh daoine fásta LADTA+ ar Oileán Chléire, agus na ranganna Gaeilge leis an gcéad chlub CLG ar domhan a bunaíodh go sonrach le haghaidh daoine LADTA+. Chruthaigh Elena an tionscadal uathúil grianghrafadóireachta seo le meantóireacht bhliana ó Bhainisteoir Oideachais Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann, Darragh Shanahan, agus le maoiniú ó Ealaíona agus Míchumas Éireann agus Foras na Gaeilge. Cuirfear toradh an tionscadail ar fáil mar irisín clóite.

Book your seat 👉 https://ow.ly/phu450ZXFS6

Bígí linn le haghaidh tráthnóna cuideachta, cultúir agus teanga mar aon le painéal plé idir:
Grianghrafadóir Elena Ní hArgáin
Cartlannaí Tonie Walsh
Aoife Ní Mhórdha ó Na Gaeil Aeracha
Eoin Mc Evoy ó AerachAiteachGaelach
agus áisitheoir Conall Ó Duibhir ó AerachAiteachGaelach.

Arts & Disability Ireland Foras na Gaeilge Na Gaeil Aeracha Whiplash

📣 Now open - TALENTS 2026 brings together the vital new work of five emerging photographic voices, capturing contemporar...
17/10/2026

📣 Now open - TALENTS 2026 brings together the vital new work of five emerging photographic voices, capturing contemporary life in Ireland as it is experienced.

For free. For everyone.

Learn more 👉 https://ow.ly/OAM050ZXwSZ

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, available to purchase in our bookshop 👉 https://ow.ly/7i1v50ZXwSX

TALENTS 2026 is supported by the Sigma Talents Artist Awards, PMI’s Diversity Residency, and Irish Photo Network Residency, delivered with Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Exposed, and Source Magazine, supported by the Department of Culture, Communications, and Sport.

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Council
Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

Image: Ronan Callahan, Daniel, Mayo, 2026, from the series Between Men

Bringing together distinct and ambitious new work, TALENTS 2026 spans documentary, portraiture, analogue practice, and c...
16/10/2026

Bringing together distinct and ambitious new work, TALENTS 2026 spans documentary, portraiture, analogue practice, and collaborative approaches, offering a compelling view of diverse approaches shaping contemporary photography in Ireland today.

TALENTS 2026 opens tomorrow.
For free. For everyone.

Learn more 👉 https://photomuseumireland.ie/exhibition/talents-2026/

TALENTS 2026 is supported by the Sigma Talents Artist Awards, PMI’s Diversity Residency, and Irish Photo Network Residency, delivered with Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Exposed, and Source Magazine, supported by the Department of Culture, Communications, and Sport.

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Council
Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

What does a sustainable photographic career in Ireland look like to you?We’re gathering direct feedback from lens-based ...
15/10/2026

What does a sustainable photographic career in Ireland look like to you?

We’re gathering direct feedback from lens-based artists across Ireland to understand the real challenges, gaps, and opportunities facing the photography sector today. Your answers will help shape critical initiatives, sector advocacy, and artist supports for the future.

Tell us what you need from the network.

Share your thoughts here 👉 https://ow.ly/KlOo50ZOqTk

Department of Culture, Communications and Sport The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Arts Office Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

TALENTS 2026 opens on 17 October. The work in TALENTS 2026 spans youth and community, masculinity and institutional memo...
14/10/2026

TALENTS 2026 opens on 17 October.

The work in TALENTS 2026 spans youth and community, masculinity and institutional memory, q***r identity and belonging, grief and loss, and the realities of addiction and recovery. Together, these emerging photographic voices demonstrate Irish photography's capacity to engage meaningfully with contemporary life.

Learn more 👉 https://photomuseumireland.ie/exhibition/talents-2026/

TALENTS 2026 is supported by the Sigma Talents Artist Awards, PMI’s Diversity Residency, and Irish Photo Network Residency, delivered with Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Exposed, and Source Magazine, supported by the Department of Culture, Communications, and Sport.

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Council
Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

Image: Ewan Power, My angel (Stella), Dublin, 2025, from the series I can’t do this alone

Grounded in years of nationwide collaboration, the Irish Photo Network links photographers, curators, and organisations ...
13/10/2026

Grounded in years of nationwide collaboration, the Irish Photo Network links photographers, curators, and organisations across the island of Ireland, creating a connected photographic community.

Through our annual survey, photobook award, and public forums, we create meaningful spaces for dialogue – listening directly to practitioners, connecting communities, and expanding support for artists across nationwide.

Discover IPN Edition 2026 👉 https://ow.ly/w86W50ZOqH4

Department of Culture, Communications and Sport The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Arts Office Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Belfast Photo Festival Source Photographic Review

TONIGHT: Join us for the second instalment of Post-Photography: Artists in Conversation, a series of online panel discus...
13/10/2026

TONIGHT: Join us for the second instalment of Post-Photography: Artists in Conversation, a series of online panel discussions accompanying the exhibition tour Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age. This online panel discussion brings together exhibiting artists Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and Alan Phelan in dialogue with curator Darren Campion and the team from The Dock Arts Centre.

7pm Tuesday 13 Oct - Via Zoom

Book your free ticket 👉 https://ow.ly/Fll550ZX3LE

Each session of this discussion series explores how contemporary practices are reshaping what photography is and can be in an increasingly networked, image-saturated world. From archival interventions to digital montage and expanded image-making, these conversations reflect on the diverse ways images are now produced, circulated, and understood. Through discussion of the artists’ work, the series considers how meaning, context, and authorship are shifting, and explores what these changes reveal about photography today.

For free. For everyone.

This is the second discussion is a special talk series, 'Post-Photography: Artists in Conversation', accompanying this Photo Museum Ireland National Tour.

Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age is a Photo Museum Ireland National Tour, organised in partnership with The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, supported by an Arts Council Touring Award.

Green On Red Gallery The Dock Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

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Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Dublin
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Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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