Guinness Storehouse and the story behind Dublin’s pint?shaped landmark
Published on 08/23/2026 at 10:06 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael MĂĽller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Guinness Storehouse in Dublin takes a former fermentation plant at St James’s Gate Brewery and turns it into a multi?storey celebration of Ireland’s most famous stout, arranged around an atrium shaped like a giant pint glass.
A brewery landmark reborn as the Home of Guinness
Guinness Storehouse occupies a steel?framed block inside the historic St James’s Gate Brewery on the western side of central Dublin, in a district long associated with industry and brewing.Guinness Storehouse The building was constructed in the first years of the twentieth century as a fermentation plant, when stout production at St James’s Gate had grown far beyond the yard Arthur Guinness leased in the eighteenth century.a 113?year?old former Guinness fermentation plant
Arthur Guinness signed his celebrated 9,000?year lease on the brewery site in 1759, committing his brewing venture to this corner of Dublin for the very long term.Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000?year lease Brewing history at St James’s Gate stretches back over 250 years, and the Storehouse sits within that wider complex as the brand’s story centre rather than a production hall.an exhibition on the 250?year?old history of Guinness
Chicago School architecture and a seven?storey pint
The original fermentation building was designed in the style of the Chicago School of Architecture, making it one of Ireland’s earliest multi?storey steel?framed structures.first multi?storey steel?framed building in Ireland Its robust brick and steel frame were well suited to industrial use and later provided the skeleton for a very different interior: a seven?floor visitor experience centred on a void shaped like a huge glass of stout.a seven?storey storytelling showcase
Conversion work in the late 1990s turned the disused plant into Guinness Storehouse, with the UK?based design firm Imagination working alongside Dublin architects RKD to carve exhibition floors into the old industrial shell.the redesign of the building was undertaken by Imagination and RKD The attraction opened to visitors in 2000, at the dawn of the new millennium, presenting Guinness as “the Home of Guinness” inside the very brewery that had exported stout around the world since the nineteenth century.The Guinness Storehouse opened at the dawn of the millennium in 2000
The Gravity Bar: a glass ring above Dublin
High above the brewing stories and ingredient displays, the Gravity Bar crowns Guinness Storehouse as its rooftop viewing deck, sitting on the top level of the former plant.The Gravity Bar The bar was designed by Imagination with RKD as architects, and its form has been compared to the creamy head of a pint glass resting on the industrial block below.Designed to look like the head of a pint glass
A later expansion reshaped the Gravity Bar into a larger figure?of?eight plan, increasing its glazed footprint and extending the panoramic views across the city’s rooftops towards landmarks such as Phoenix Park and the Dublin Mountains.Gravity Bar has now more than doubled in size Contemporary steel and glass construction sits on top of the early twentieth?century structure, creating a clear contrast between the industrial brick below and the light?filled viewing space above.
Visiting Guinness Storehouse: what travellers from Western Europe should know
- Guinness Storehouse stands within the St James’s Gate Brewery complex in Dublin 8, on the western edge of the city centre, reached by city streets and public transport serving the Liberties district.
- The experience is arranged over several levels inside a former industrial building, with escalators, lifts and staircases linking floors and an upper?level bar space set above the main exhibition areas.
- The official language is English and the currency is the euro.
- Entry requirements depend on your nationality; UK travellers can check the FCDO travel advice at gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice, Irish travellers the Department of Foreign Affairs at ireland.ie.
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Frequently asked questions about Guinness Storehouse
Where is Guinness Storehouse in Dublin?
Guinness Storehouse is inside the St James’s Gate Brewery complex in Dublin 8, west of the traditional city centre streets and close to the Liberties neighbourhood.
What can visitors expect inside Guinness Storehouse?
Visitors walk through several themed floors inside a former fermentation plant, with exhibits about Guinness brewing and branding leading up to the rooftop Gravity Bar.
What makes Guinness Storehouse distinctive among brewery attractions?
The combination of an early twentieth?century industrial building, a pint?shaped atrium and a glass?clad Gravity Bar above Dublin’s rooftops gives Guinness Storehouse a very particular character.
