Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Galway City Museum is the city's municipal museum, opened in 2006 in a purpose-built building beside the Spanish Arch. Its permanent exhibitions cover prehistoric Galway, the medieval walled town, the writer Pádraic Ó Conaire, dance halls, cinema and Galway in the wars of empire, alongside temporary shows.
The Spanish Arch is one of two surviving arches of a 1584 extension of Galway's city wall, built to protect the quays where the River Corrib meets the sea. The arches were opened in the 18th century to give access to the Long Walk quay and were partly destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon tsunami.
Galway Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Galway, built from 1958 to 1965 on the site of the old city gaol beside the River Corrib. Designed by John J. Robinson and built almost entirely of local limestone, it has a dome 44 metres high, rose windows and mosaics.
Vizgu uses necessary technologies to make the site work. With your permission, we also use optional technologies to remember features and measure affiliate ticket referrals. We currently use no general analytics or advertising trackers. You can accept, reject or choose categories, and change your choice at any time through Cookie preferences in the footer.
