Celebrating 30 Years of Science Week: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon Lands in Dublin

2025 marks three decades of Science Week in Ireland, with this year’s theme — Then. Today. Tomorrow. — reflecting on curiosity and collaboration in science over the years. To celebrate this milestone, Science Week and Research Ireland are proud to present Luke Jerram’s spectacular Museum of the Moon installation in Dublin’s Merrion Square.

Suspended between the trees, the seven-metre moon sculpture is internally lit and mapped with 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At a scale of approximately 1:500,000, each centimetre of the model represents 5km of the moon’s terrain, offering visitors a breathtakingly close encounter with our celestial neighbour. Jerram’s work is already familiar to Dublin audiences — his large-scale Earth model Gaia is currently on display in Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library. Now, Museum of the Moon continues his tradition of blending science, art, and public engagement in awe-inspiring ways.

Accompanying the installation will be a thought-provoking programme of musical performances, designed to bring audiences together through a dynamic fusion of science and the arts. The event is free and open to the public from Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th November in Merrion Square.

Science Week 2025 will run from 9-16th November this year, and is supported by Research Ireland.