National Famine Museum

The National Famine Museum (Irish: Músaem Náisiúnta an Ghorta Mhóir) is located at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland.

[1] The exhibits aim to explain the famine, which was triggered by the failure of successive potato harvests, and to draw parallels with the occurrence of famine (a widespread scarcity of food) in the world today.

[3] The Strokestown Park House and its estate were bought by the Westward Group in 1979.

In 2015, the Irish Heritage Trust took responsibility for the property with the help of private philanthropic support from individual directors of the Westward Group.

[5] It is not affiliated with the similarly-named National Famine Memorial at Murrisk, County Mayo or with Ireland's Great Hunger Museum in the US.