Steam Museum, Straffan

The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden is a steam museum and tourist destination in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.

The Steam Museum

An Músaem Innealtóireachta
An Ingersoll Rand air compressor, Imperial Type 10 (c. 1912)
Location within County Kildare
Established	1988[1]
Location	Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland
Coordinates	53°18′42″N 6°35′56″W
Type	Steam museum
Public transit access	Straffan bus stop (Bus Éireann routes 120, 121, 123)
Website	steam-museum.com

Engine in the Steam Museum

Lodge Park "big house"

Location

The Straffan Steam Museum is housed in a church building which once stood by the Inchicore railway works in Dublin. The church building was later moved and rebuilt in Straffan in Kildare.^[2]

The museum is located on the site of Lodge Park, a former "big house", which has an 18th-century walled garden.^[3]

Collection

This steam museum contains a collection of prototype model locomotives and live steam engines.^[4][5][6] Two of the locomotives on display were used in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway.^[5]

The museum also has a selection of steam engines used for industrial propulsion, including a large beam engine used in the old Midleton Whiskey Distillery, a pumping engine once employed in Jameson's Distillery in Dublin, and a beam engine installed in Smithwick's Brewery, Kilkenny, in 1847.^{[citation needed]}

Operations

The museum is open to visitors from Wednesdays to Sundays during the summer, from 2pm to 6pm. It has a café and a small shop.^{[citation needed]}