This museum located in the heart of Limerick has a fine collection of antiquities from Pre-historic times(800 B.C. Bronze Age shield and cauldron,Neolithic tools),the Medieval Period(6th Century Greek Wooden Statue,13th Century Stained Glass,),and the Renaissance(South German limewood statue of Balthasar,Hohenzollern Crucifix,Gilded Bourdeloue from France).It also has a few fine Irish paintings by William Orpen,Sean Keating,and Roderic O'Conor plus a fine... more

The Hunt Museum was an unexpected bright spot on rainy Limerick Sunday. The entire collection and rotating exhibits are free on Sundays. I found that the eclectic collection seemed a bit hodgepodge but the docent's anecdotes gave the collection more continuity and meaning. Worth a visit if you are visiting or live in Limerick! more

The Hunt Museum is easily Limerick's finest, boasting both a collection of local artefacts and some top-notch global work by first-rate artists -- you aren't going to find a piece by Da Vinci in any other museum in Ireland outside Dublin!!! (Indeed, I doubt if you'll find any by him IN Dublin either!) Even if you see nothing else in... more

I have to agree with the previous reviewer that this museum isn't particularly focused on Ireland, rather it is an eclectic mix of artifacts from around the world. However, there aren't that many attractions in Limerick (although King John's Castle is absolutely fantastic) so if you find yourself in the city this place is well worth a look. The price... more

I'm local, and I love the HUnt museum - lots of interesting things to see, a very "hands-on" place where the kids can open drawers and look inside (artefacts protected by glass, so no danger of damaging things) It was all kinds of weird and wonderful things collected by the Hunt family through the years, including a picasso, some other... more