This sometimes overlooked museum houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic Art. The museum holds a collection of over 10,000 pieces, mainly Egyptian, but also from elsewhere in the Islamic world. The are all kinds of artworks, including woodwork, stucco, intarsia, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, and carpets.

A narrow road twists steeply up from Teelin to the dramatic Slieve League mountain and cliffs on the southwest coast of Donegal. The cliffs are some of the highest in Europe and are considerably higher than the more famous Cliffs of Moher. For the experienced walker, One Man’s pass will take you to Slieve League's summit. For the leisure visitor, there is a viewing platform from which you can see one of the finest views of the Atlantic Ocean, the Sligo Mountains and Donegal Bay.

The museum showcases an extensive collection spanning from the Prehistoric to Hellenistic eras, featuring bronze and marble statues, funeral offerings, ancient coins, clay pottery, golden jewellery, and fragments from ancient temples. Among the notable exhibits is the awe-inspiring Medusa pediment from the temple of Artemis, dating back to 585 BC. Additionally, visitors can marvel at the stone lion of Menecrates, a likely funeral offering to the renowned politician, a limestone pediment from the temple of Dionysus, 13 identical small statues of goddess Artemis, and a marble torso of Apollo.