The Blasket Centre

Fascinating Museum using Creative Interactive Tools that made the Learning Experience Fun

Hats off to whoever planned this museum. There was a video which gave an excellent background. As you walk through the museum, there are specific areas dedicated to the way of life of the past resid...

Blasket Island Life Museum

We stopped here while driving the Slea Head Loop on the Dingle peninsula. The museum was about the people who,lived on the Blasket islands which you can see on your drive. It was interesting , seemed...

Brings a forgotten time to life

Exceptional centre! We learned so much about the people who made Blasket Islands their home. The telling of their stories brought intimate insights to a forgotten time. So much to learn about tr...

Brilliant - please visit.

We were in the area and decided to give this a visit. Firstly, the building is lovely inside and out and has been sympathetically designed to fit in with the locality. The long corridor internally is ...

Touching the past

Original Text

The Blasket Center is a museum of heritage and culture dedicated to the community that lived on the island of Blasket, before their evacuation in 1953. Since that time the island is uninhabited. Start the ... sign