Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

3011 Whitney Ave, Connecticut 06518 USA

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“The largest display on the Irish Famine”

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University features the world's largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the Irish Famine. The museum preserves, builds and presents its art collection in order to stimulate reflection, inspire imagination and advance awareness of Ireland's Great Hunger and its long aftermath on both sides of the Atlantic.

Reviewed by
John M.

February 25, 2019

This museum is small and of course sobering but very much on point and well done. We were there when much of the hunger materials were on loan and the featured a Civil War collection that was... Read more

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Tricia B.

June 23, 2019

This is one of the saddest museums I've ever been to, but very well put together and in a beautiful building. The art really drives home how devastating the famine was to Ireland, with a current... Read more

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Kelsey M.

December 11, 2016

Came here for a school project... write a paper on the Great Hunger. I brought my dad who was born in Ireland and we were both very impressed! Great staff, and we were the only ones in there. We... Read more

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