The Museum of Brexit, the long-in-gestation tourist attraction celebrating Britain’s departure from the EU, is still no closer to opening its doors despite the permanent tribute to the “struggle for the United Kingdom’s independence” first being announced in 2017.
But objects relating to the lengthy Brexit struggle have now finally gone on display in a national museum – except that national museum is Ireland’s, and the focus is on the widespread opposition to the ruinous decision around the island’s border.
Memorabilia from anti-Brexit protests are featured in The Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, with objects from County Louth featuring prominently. These include protest placards used at the official Border Communities Against Brexit demonstration at Carrickcarnon, on the Dundalk/Newry border, in January 2019, during which a mock eight-foot wall and army watchtower were built to make “a stand against Brexit, against borders, against division”.
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The Border Communities Against Brexit group, made up of a range of business, community and farming sectors, is featured widely in the new exhibition. It was set up to lobby against any “hard border” on the island and was awarded a European Citizens’ prize in 2017.
Meanwhile, the official Museum of Brexit continues its sterling work. Its most recent filings with the Charity Commission, for the year ending March 2025, showed a total income for the year of £35,136 and expenditure of £8,205, which is unlikely to buy much bricks and mortar.
Its official website’s list of supporters include the former chancellor Nigel Lawson and the businessman and economist John Mills, neither of whom is presumably much involved on a day-to-day basis, having died in April 2023 and April 2025 respectively.
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