EPIC is an entertaining and educational day of family fun for kids, adults and grandparents alike and we’ve got plenty to keep everyone entertained.

With its spectacular visual displays, innovative audio-visual exhibitions and interactive touch-screens, EPIC is a feast for the senses that brings Irish stories to life like never before. It’s an engaging, interactive and totally immersive experience that the whole family will enjoy.

EPIC is a privately-owned museum, founded by Neville Isdell, former chairman and Chief Executive of The Coca-Cola Company, who was born in County Down and was officially opened in May 2016 by former President of Ireland Mary Robinson. EPIC is located in the vaults of CHQ Building, a listed building originally known as Stack A and built in 1820 by John Rennie and completed by Thomas Telford; it was used as a bonded customs warehouse for tobacco and wine and was conserved and restored in the early 2000s.

The Irish Times described EPIC as: “the world’s first fully digital museum and had 120,000 visitors in its first year”, when it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award in 2018. EPIC went on to win the World Travel Awards for Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction in 2019.

“EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum is the world’s first 100% digital museum, the visitor experience in the museum is built around their interaction with the technology which we use in the museum.”

This technology ranges from touch screen exhibits, where our visitors can read digital copies of letters sent home to Ireland (by emigrants) describing their experiences in the new countries which they have settled in, to watching movie presentations of emigrants recounting their lives and the push factors for them to leave Ireland.

All throughout the museum, the visitor will be completely immersed into the emigrants journey recounting their tales of success and sorrow”. You can take a Virtual Tour of the museum to experience this for yourself here: EPIC Virtual Tour.