Sligo County Museum

Stephen Street, Sligo

Phone: +353-(0)71-9142212
Opening Hours: June - September - Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 12noon & 2pm - 4.50pm, October - May - Tuesday - Saturday 2pm - 4.50pm

The Sligo County Museum contains a fascinating collection of exhibits detailing Sligo's rich stone-age history, including a large firkin of 100-year-old bog butter.

The Yeats Room here is full of manuscripts, photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings associated with the local poet William Butler Yeats including a copy of his 1923 Nobel Prize winning medal and a complete collection of his poems from 1889 to 1936.

Also in the museum you will see paintings by Irish artists George Russell, Sean Keating and Jack. B. Yeats, brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.

There is also a display of artefacts and memorabilia associated with Countess Constance Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth.