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Museum of Dublin?
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09-09-2010 10:59pm#1
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Here's an idea:
Aldborough House is one of the city's most important urban mansions; located right beside the Five Lamps on Amiens Street, it is right beside Connolly Station, just under a kilometre from O'Connell Street, and 500 metres away from the IFSC / Docklands. Very similar to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery on Parnell Square, the building was the last great Georgian mansion built in the capital.
Sadly it is now in the process of falling into great disrepair:
http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=7878
Left empty for the last number of years, initially one or two windows were broken - however more recently the lead was stolen from the roof, and other disrepair has set in
Apparently the current owner had intended to redevelop it, having acquired it during the boom - but obviously all of that is now up in the air.
Whenever I travel I am always amazed as to the amount of museums in other cities; Paris city has well over 100, as to does Amsterdam for example. In contrast, in Dublin during the 'boom', we actually lost museums and tourist / cultural attractions and other venues - be it the former Civic Museum on South William Street, the Bank of Ireland's Arts Centre on Foster Place - now housing the Wax Museum, which departed from just off Parnell Square, and even the SFX. (For a true horror story, have a glance of Dublin City Centre map from circa. 1980 as to the loss of cinemas).
Point being, we have lost attractions and venues during the 'boom' - some of which could actually be really useful to us now if we are trying to attract tourists and visitors to the city.
Tourists frequently cite 'Georgian Dublin' as to why they are attracted here - yet here is a once fine Georgian building falling into disrepair; if it were acquired from the owner at a reasonable price, we could kill two birds with the one stone - save a fine Georgian building, while providing a much needed museum as to the story of Dublin. So,
What say Aldborough House become a new museum for Dublin City?
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183090&id=98882993873&l=e4efd6e4ab0 -
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Sundew wrote:I went up to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre and asked could I buy a postcard of the Phoenix Park and guess what reply I got "we don't sell postcards"
Hilarious - if it wasn't so sad.
Only this summer, I was also myself in Phoenix Park at the Bloom Festival. In the middle of the festival, almost as a focal point was Ashtown Castle. Perfect for parents to bring their kids into and up, and normally open to the public, was it open when people would have queued up to go in? It was like shide - instead the guides had been directed by their manager to man an OPW stall nearby, advertising the castle and the park - rather than having it open :mad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtown_Castle
Why is it that are management in our state sector are tolerated when they are not doing the job needed - be it the Civic Museum closed in 2003, or a chief feature such as Ashtown Castle left closed on a day that it could have been coining it... and that's before we consider how another poster recently stated in this forum that they were told that historic plaques on Dublin buildings are now 'actively discouraged'.
At this rate, we should simply shut up shop permanently 0 -
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Here's an idea:
Aldborough House is one of the city's most important urban mansions; located right beside the Five Lamps on Amiens Street, it is right beside Connolly Station, just under a kilometre from O'Connell Street, and 500 metres away from the IFSC / Docklands. Very similar to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery on Parnell Square, the building was the last great Georgian mansion built in the capital.
Sadly it is now in the process of falling into great disrepair:
http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=7878
Left empty for the last number of years, initially one or two windows were broken - however more recently the lead was stolen from the roof, and other disrepair has set in
Apparently the current owner had intended to redevelop it, having acquired it during the boom - but obviously all of that is now up in the air.
Whenever I travel I am always amazed as to the amount of museums in other cities; Paris city has well over 100, as to does Amsterdam for example. In contrast, in Dublin during the 'boom', we actually lost museums and tourist / cultural attractions and other venues - be it the former Civic Museum on South William Street, the Bank of Ireland's Arts Centre on Foster Place - now housing the Wax Museum, which departed from just off Parnell Square, and even the SFX. (For a true horror story, have a glance of Dublin City Centre map from circa. 1980 as to the loss of cinemas).
Point being, we have lost attractions and venues during the 'boom' - some of which could actually be really useful to us now if we are trying to attract tourists and visitors to the city.
Tourists frequently cite 'Georgian Dublin' as to why they are attracted here - yet here is a once fine Georgian building falling into disrepair; if it were acquired from the owner at a reasonable price, we could kill two birds with the one stone - save a fine Georgian building, while providing a much needed museum as to the story of Dublin. So,
What say Aldborough House become a new museum for Dublin City?
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183090&id=98882993873&l=e4efd6e4ab
There is an existing Georgian House museum in Dublin, Number 29. This has provided guided tours, depicting how an upper middle class family (and their servants) lived in the late 18th / early 19th century, for over 20 years.
Unfortunately the museum is set to close next Thursday 4th April as a guided museum. It is due to open again as an unguided museum in mid June but will only open for 7 months each year and the unguided model will destroy the very essence of the museum which will almost certainly lead to it's ultimate closure.
If you would like to save the museum in its current format, please LIKE and SHARE www.facebook.com/SaveNo290
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