GAA Museum

The GAA Museum at Croke Park offers an immersive experience into the history of Gaelic games, featuring original trophies, a Hall of Fame, and an Interactive Games Zone. Visitors can delve into the cultural and social impact of the GAA through engaging exhibits and multimedia presentations.

Planning your visit

The GAA Museum at Croke Park covers Gaelic games — hurling and Gaelic football — which are amateur, deeply local, and drive an intensity of allegiance that surprises visitors expecting a minor sport. Hurling in particular is worth understanding: played with a stick and a small hard ball at considerable speed, it has been played in Ireland for millennia and remains strictly amateur at the highest level, with county players holding ordinary jobs.

The museum covers the association's history from its 1884 founding, its role in Irish cultural nationalism, the trophies including the Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy cups, and the Hall of Fame. The Interactive Games Zone lets visitors try striking and catching, which conveys the difficulty better than any display.

Croke Park's own history is inseparable from the politics: on Bloody Sunday in 1920, British forces opened fire on a crowd at a match, killing fourteen. The museum addresses it directly.

Bookable options combine the museum with the stadium tour, and with the Skyline walkway along the roof — a walk high above the pitch giving views across Dublin to the mountains. The combined formats are the stronger visit. Current availability is listed below.