The Little Museum of Dublin, Dublin

The Little Museum of Dublin is a local-history museum at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. It occupies an 18th-century Georgian townhouse owned by Dublin City Council, and it explores the city’s social and cultural life through everyday objects donated by members of the public. Its collection contains more than 6,000 artefacts, many given or loaned by Dublin residents.

A particularly remarkable item is a small stained-glass panel of St Brendan, made around 1920 and attributed to the Irish artist Harry Clarke. Peter Pearson rescued the panel from a skip, and parts of it are missing. The museum began in April 2011 and opened its doors in October that year.

Its exhibitions cover subjects including the 1916 Rising, John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dublin, and the rock band U2. The townhouse provides three floors of exhibition space, and visits take place by guided tour only.