Cape Clear Museum is housed in a restored old schoolhouse and contains some several hundred artefacts of island maritime and folklife interest. There are, to date, 196 framed exhibition panels in the collection which deal with fourteen different themes of island heritage. Each theme may have from around six to fourteen exhibition panels, but only a few of these may be exhibited at any one time. The exhibition is changed each summer and anniversary and special exhibitions are also mounted.

Aspects covered in the exhibition panels include St. Ciarán-St Piran: Pilgrim Islander, archaeology, placenames, shipwrecks, famine, education, genealogy, folk and farm, geology, lighthouses and signal towers, telegraphs, fishing, maritime history and folklore. The Fastnet Lighthouse and Fastnet Race of 1979 form a special exhibition.

Among recent events organised by the Museum have been the Naomh Ciarán-St Piran Millennium Jubilee Pilgrimage from Cornwall to Cape Clear and Seir Kieran (Co. Offally): the Fastnet Exhibition and 1979 Fastnet Race Remembrance Ceremony of 2004.

The Museum is open seven days 12 noon to 5pm June to August 31 each year and from September 1 to June 1 by arrangement with the island librarian or Comharchumann Chléire Teo/ Cape Clear island Co-Operative. Tel. 353 28 39119. FAX 353 28 39150

Cape Clear Island Archive is a comprehensive collection of baptism, marriage, burial records, headstone inscriptions, school rolls, boat and land ownership lists, census returns, maps, folklore, placename and genealogical archive compiled over thirty years by Dr. Éamon Lankford. Also included is a compilation of some 2,200 photographs of island life which are individually catalogued in various themes. The Archive material will not be available to the public in both Cape Clear Museum and island library and Cork County Library until January 2007.