Great museum!! - This was such a great museum. Gives you a historical walk through of the Irish wake with Waterford history weaved throughout. Highly recommend, thank you Deirdre for the lovely tour!

Highly recommend! - Very interesting museum and well worth a visit. Deirdre was our guide and was very professional and friendly. Thank you!

Very interesting and nice tour - Very nice tour guide and we understood everything very well even as non native speakers. Would definitely recommend!!

Irish Wake Museum Experience - The Wake Museum is really brilliant. The tour guide Toby Hickey was excellent. So informative and funny we thoroughly enjoyed the tour with him. Would highly recommend.

You can’t miss The Wake Museum - fascinating, emotional and thrilling - Loved loved this Museum and tour. Ger the receptionist was so welcoming and warm and has a huge love of history. As a solo traveller he made me very welcome. My guide Liam set the eerie tone with humour and warmth. The museum is fascinating a building standing there for hundreds of years. There is contained in its walls and I really felt that I was transported back in time. Liam showed huge respect to death rituals in particular at in the end of the tour when he spoke about Wake customs in Ireland. It was so moving I cried a tear or two for my relatives. Thank you so much

Very engaging and informative - Loved visiting this unique museum. Such an interesting tour presented by a knowledgeable guide. Highly recommend the tour.

If you want to understand in depth at a whole different level. This is insightful. - Great insight on history. Well done I formative. The guide was delightful.We had fun and recommend it.

Fascinating, touching, and humbling. - Fascinating, touching, -- and humbling to see the ancient stones and wood that stood in this museum for more than 450 years. The tour guide was just a pleasure and so knowledgeable. This was a highlight of our trip!

Impressive building, history and guide but the history of the Irish Wake is an afterthought - I was so looking forward to visiting the Wake museum since it opened. I have had a tattered 1960s Mercier Press copy of Seán Ó Súilleabháin's 'Irish Wake Amusements' for many years and always enjoy dipping into it to learn about the outrageous and naughty morbid folk customs of our past. I visited here with a friend (a local) on a Saturday afternoon and the conservation and refurbishment of the building is very impressive! There is a lot of potential to have a decent gift shop at the reception desk where you buy your tickets. There were only rosary beads for €70 and some cheap tacky touristy gifts. There is a wealth of history books on the subject of Irish folk customs around rituals of death and dying that could be sold here. When I asked about Seán Ó Súilleabháin's book the man (not a guide) on the front desk didn't know what I was talking about and told me to order it in the Book Centre. Our tour guide Laura was very enthusiastic and kept up a good momentum. Understandably the tours are small due to the small space inside the house. I was impressed with the exhibition layout throughout, and the tasteful display of the artefacts relating to children reminded me of the Foundling Museum in London. Having worked in the heritage and tourism sectors I imagine that the tour is outlined and scripted, so it focused majorly on the history of the plague in Waterford, the residents of the house, later an almshouse and poverty and emigration in Ireland. The "Irish wake" setup at the end was probably attractive for American tourists and this was the only part where it touched on the customs of an Irish wake - but the overemphasis on JFK's funeral felt a bit naff - again I can see this being included for the Irish-American visitor. I didn't see the relevance of having a mannequin of Queen Victoria dressed in mourning clothes in an Irish wake museum - it didn't tie into any aspect of the tour. I'd love to return for a tour that focuses on the customs and folklore of the Irish wake, and it's decline throughout the twentieth-century. I was glad to visit, but I left slightly disappointed, it's not quite what it claims to be. Overall, it is a good experience and an impressive heritage venue.

We were left wanting - A bit disappointing. We thought there would be an enactment of an a wake. While the history of the house was interesting, we were there for an enactment that didn’t happen.