Museum of Literature & Performing Arts in Sarajevo

Largely uninformative, almost no engagement with the actual literary content of Joyce’s work or other Irish authors work, nothing on modernism, the revolutionary structure and styles of Ulysses, Bloom’s humanism, Finnegans wake etc.

Beautiful, with very friendly and enthusiastic tour guides!! Shout-out to Callum (i think that was the name of ours?)

A great experience for lovers of literature. Interactive, engaging, and run by a super kind staff. The tour is self guided, which we preferred because you can go at your own pace. Its clean and has areas to sit and view short films or movies shown in honor of different Irish writers. The museum is also situated in a beautiful part of Dublin near St.Stephens Green, has a cafe, a great little gift shop, and gardens. In all, this was one of my favorite places in Dublin and would absolutely go again. - Traveler from New York.

We liked everything. The joke a staff member told us, the mild disapproval registered when we used the seniors discount, lunch at the cafe, and the words. The experience was a highlight in Dublin, and how I wish every place had a similar museum.

This is a lovely place to visit. The staff are so friendly and it is such a peaceful place to wander around. Lots of seating areas. I would give plenty of time for your visit as it cannot be rushed.This place is for lovers of the written word it will bore others.

We visited to see their section on James Joyce, but also enjoyed the garden cafe and kids room.

I visited on one of the open Friday events , which is the first Friday of the month.I was impressed by the friendly staff and the building itself is amazing.I liked the exhibition of books and especially the Ulysses first edition on the top floor.There was music and readings but I didnt have time to stay.The cafe looked very nice! It was lacking the wow factor,as a lover of books I thought it was a bit sparse!

The place itself is beautiful, as you go up the stairs you see different rooms, mostly dedicated to the life and works of J. Joyce. For example , theres a chronology of his life, and a maquette of Dublin featuring passages of his books and showing where they were located. One room with interactive wall citing quotes of Irish writers. A big salon with chairs and books in different languages that you could enjoy. I enjoyed reading portions of diaries and letters telling stories. Going up, a beautiful educative room for children.And I was lucky to visit on a sunny afternoon so I enjoyed the beautiful garden. Next time I will visit the cafe. Nice place to visit, you can book in advance on their web site, they have different prices of tickets.

This is an absolutely unsafe environment for LGBTQ+ people. If you are, skip this one. One of my highlight stops in Dublin and upon entrance was greeted with transphobia at the front desk and the same manners from Peter as I left.

Good Museum, lots of useful information. Café is lovely, however we got smth else than we ordered. Overall a great experience though and definetly fun too!

A cogent display of Irish authors blending personal and social history that gives the context of their lives and works. Great visuals although I thought some of the audio was distracting using multiple speakers talking at the same time. As a James Joyce fan, the highlights were seeing some page drafts of Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake. You can see as his vision deteriorated that his writing paper and handwriting grew larger. A wonderful space that’s not too busy (visuallyput together with a fine aesthetic taste for exhibition design and architecture. Highly recommend for lovers of literature.

There is a great café and rare garden in the Museum, a lovely place to have a cup of coffee or lunch

This was such a wonderful and inspiring place to visit. The layout, the range of authentic materials and lovely staff made this a lovely morning in Dublin. I particularly liked the part about folkloric traditions. Thank you!

An interesting place to visit if you like books. The gardens in the back of the building are a lovely hidden feature from the Dublin city streets.

Beautiful place to go for a tour, bring your children and also go for a walk outside and read a book. They have the original copy of Ulysses and you can see where James Joyce had his own graduation picture taken!

Great modern and interactive museum. The river of words was very impressive. Definitely worth a visit if you are in Dublin.

The shop is very good, as is the garden (choose a sunny day to enjoy it), and cafe excellent - and you can access these for free. The museum, however, is a strange experience, and the treatment of the material seems very superficial. The captioning often relies on banal and clichéd language, while the coverage of Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature is patchy and mostly confined to the famous names of Joyce (a first edition of Ulysses reverently placed in its plastic cabinet), Beckett, Shaw, and Yeats (the latter largely due to his Nobel Prize). It is hard not to form the impression that this is more a marketing exercise and receptacle for tourism income and state funding than a meaningful exercise in literary exploration. It is telling, for example, that the GM Hopkins study is still inaccessible. Is this UCDs misguided attempt at outdoing Trinitys Book of Kells experience? If so, at least its not as cramped... though really it is hard to believe that a serious university had anything to do with this.

Wonderful experience reading the last chapter of The Dead by James Joyce there and seeing the first edition on Ulysses!!!

The staff was really cool! They were more than friendly. Always nice in my opinion 🤗The museum in itself is great, there is a lot to learn about Irish Literature and especially on James Joyce which is probably the most represent author there.You will learn about the storytelling that used to be a core part of the Irish culture and about so much more!Really happy that I went there to visit today.Cheers

Fascinating multimedia, where the written word is rightfully spoken, and in this living ode to storytelling. I spent hours here. Couldve spent more. Relaxing, interactive, encouraging discussion or observation. Well thought out.

Beautiful building steeped in history. Exhibitions displayed so beautiful & flow easily throughout museum. Lovely cafe & gift store on basement. Beautiful gardens so tranquil & peaceful to sit & rest a while....

Awesome exhibit on Joyce but wish the other authors were as plentiful.

Had a wonderful visit here - love the staff! The cafe is also fantastic.

This museum was so lovely! The staff was so kind, attentive, and enthusiastic - they want to help you have the best experience and it is so enriching. The museum itself is also very well thought out, with pleanty of spaces designated for extra engagement and for our own creativity. Highly recommend to any literature fans!!

Superb little gem in Dublin giving great insights into Irish Literature and writers. Excellent multimedia presentations on a wide range of writers. The life and work of James Joyce is excellent. Ideal place for students studying Irish writers in Junior or Leaving Certificate or equivalent examinations.

Superb exhibits if you have an interest in writing and in Irish writers, novelists, poets, etc. Great cafe too. Highly recommended.

Very nice and cute museum. I would say that it is for the fans of James Joyce! However the garden and the coffee behind is a little hidden gem of Dublin

Great experience and super-friendly stuff. Entry fee is 10€, keep it in mind.

Not what you expect from a museum of literature. This is a modern museum, with an amazing layout that brings to life the background of Irish authors and their works.

An amazing museum - the highlight of our trip to Dublin. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. We came back a second time for the Sunday tours of the old house and it was well worth it. A pilgrimage any literature lover should make!

A superb space to access all aspects of literature in Ireland. It is innovative, exciting, and yet gives you a sense of peace and relaxation. Bang in the centre of Dublin, it incorporates a fabulous little cafe to enable you to linger as long as you like. I tried their exhibition on Joyces Ulysses, the wandering i and its unique gaze map. Please try it if it is on, you wont regret it.

One of, if not the best museum in Dublin. An amazing experience about Sirs Joyce, Yeats and the others. From old writers to young Irish ones, the museum gives you the chance to be their next subject.Interesting, fun, interactive, and filled with the nicest staff Ive seen E.V.E.R !!!

Nicely prepared collection, mainly about James Joyce (thus also the name James Joyce Centre). If you want to learn more about other famous Irish writers, youll probably be disappointed. However, I think the museum is really informative, the architecture is really nice, the staff is friendly and ready to help, the little shop and café on the ground floor is def worth a stop. The little garden behind is cute and quiet, plus you can directly access Iveagh Gardens!

Really enjoyed the visit. Felt inspired and uplifted.

The most surreal place in the city. I loved the three hours I spent here to the core. It was my first but definitely not my last visit. 2022 looks great already with the first Friday at MoLI <3 Youve really brought Joyce to life, and me too!

I visited this museum for the first time today (09-01-2022). Its really interesting. Its all about the story of Ireland’s rich literary culture from past to present. It also holds a permanent collection of of James Joyce-related material, including his "Copy No. 1" of Ulysses. The garden is beautiful by the way.Id like to visit it again someday.

Whoever designed this museum is a genius the layout design is just amazing its breathtaking in itself interactive just gorgeous!! I so appreciated seeing the first edition of The Odyssey but I really miss seeing more of Oliver Wilde! There wasnt even anything to buy featuring Oscar Wilde in the gift shop but there surely is a lot of James Joyce everywhere! So many great Irish writers whether youre into this or not you will come away loving the experience of visiting this amazing place and appreciating the many diverse writers from Ireland.

Fabulous museum with lots of interactive displays, wonderful walls of words and sounds, friendly knowledgeable staff. Nuala O Faolains exhibition was great, very immersive

Superb, Dublins best kept secret is a new museum thats an oasis of calm in the heart of the city centre. Friendly helpful staff, great setting, a wonderful cafe with plenty of outdoor seating, and a large garden accessing the Iveagh gardens also. The exhibits were great, with unsurprising focus on Anglo-Irish literature, and the first ever copy of Ulysses as a showcase piece. Clever exhibits and use of space overcome the slight maze of three combined Georgian buildings. If you are interested in literature, you have to check it out.

Beautiful hidden gem, an oasis of calm and inspiration at the heart of the city. The coffee and the shop are a must visit as well.

Fascinating and very well thought and laid out literary exhibits, with a large emphasis on James Joyce. Beautiful building and gardens. Recommended.

A great discovery in the city center of Dublin! Highly suggested to get to know more about Irish Literature and History. Museum full of digital and interactive contents, accessible to everyone! Anti-covid measures very well enforced, I felt safe throughout the whole visit highly recommended 👍 👌 🙏 😀 😊 ❤ 👍 👌

Neat, well-arranged, informative. My only regret is that this new museum is a missed opportunity as they should have used this rare chance to add, even smaller sections, for other literary heavyweights. And Ireland boasts many of those.

Wonderfully balanced installation, nicely curated. This is not a stuffy museum by any means, accessible to people of any generation. A homage to Joyce enticing the visitor to pick him up... Dubliners is always a good start. Well done.

Very interesting museum, especially if you are a big Joyce fan.The coffee shop, gift shop and gardens are a real hidden gem between Stephens green and Iveagh Gardens.

This is the place to be! You can discover the real soul of Dublin and Ireland through this beautiful gem of the city. Dont miss the Iveagh Gardens.

I was so delighted that this place should exist that I became a member before even visiting. I came away strangely unsatisfied but I am sure it will fill out a bit and be better. Joyce and Heaney feature big time and there is a film about Nuala ÓFaoláin showing at present. I thought there was more to that particular exhibition and was disappointed that it was only a film, even though it is a very good film, playing on loop, in the museum. Perhaps it was because the film is about two hours long that I was a bit tired to properly appreciate the rest of the exhibits. The cafe, courtyard and access to the beautiful Iveagh Gardens add to the beauty of the buildings. One big flaw is that there is nowhere at all to park a bicycle.

A great discovery in the city center of Dublin! Highly suggested to get to know more about Irish Literature and History. Museum full of digital and interactive contents, accessible to everyone! Anti-covid measures very well enforced, I felt safe throughout the whole visit.

Dublins newest museum, the MOLI (Museum of Irish Literaturemuseum near St. Stephens Green. Only open since December 2019, it is 10 Euro entry and is housed in a beautiful Georgian building.

One of the most atmospheric museums I have ever visited. This was not my first time to be there and I will come back again. The guides are great & very well-informed. The restoration is marvellous ; as you walk through the building, you learn of its prestigious past when a wealthy family lived there. Then, you realise this, and many other fine, large houses, were " carved up" to house whole families in cramped spaces. The fact that, along with "showing" the house, the great people behind this project have collected, and are collecting, oral histories of those who have the experience of the lived life of those families. The last tenements, to ones amazement (and yet, in my own memory), were only finally cleared in this street in 1979. An important place, stories that must be told and should be heard. Well done, Gillian, our tour guide on this visit.