Waterford Museum of Treasures

Waterford is Ireland’s oldest city founded by Viking raiders in 914.  Waterford Museum of Treasures, the Multi-award winning
all-weather visitor attraction in the South-East opened in 1999.

The museum houses a unique exhibition that, using a superb collection of historic and archaeological artefacts, tells the 1000-year-story of Waterford, Ireland’s oldest city, from Viking times through medieval times to the present. The exhibition celebrates the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of all who contributed to the making of Waterford, and is being added to and improved continuously. The displays are enlivened by audiovisual presentations with an audio guide available in six languages and a separate child audio guide.

It has played a pivotal role in the economic, political and cultural life of the country and its motto Urbs Intacta (the untaken city) bears witness to the many power struggles and conflicts in which it has been involved through the centuries.

The city centre was extensively excavated between 1986 and 1992 and the range, quantity and quality of what was found from Waterford's Viking and Medieval past, surpassed all expectations. Many of these unique finds are now on display in the museum.

The museum, located on the Quays in the historic Granary, also houses onsite the regional Tourist Office, a busy temporary exhibition gallery, a theatre available for hire, a gift shop and a Bridgestone award-winning café, the city’s most contemporary eatery and most popular meeting place for locals and tourists alike.