Museum sights in County Waterford
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Waterford Museum of Treasures
Waterford Museum of Treasures is one of Ireland's widest-ranging and most hi-tech museums. It's a dazzling, intriguing, provoking, and at times plain bewildering maze of metal, glass and state-of-the-art audiovisual displays. The fun begins on the 3rd floor, from where (plugged into an audioguide) you follow the exhibitions as they wend their way through history.
A highlight is the 'Viking longship', a rocking ride narrated by Waterford's Nordic forebears, who call themselves 'children of the raven' but sound more like comedic Scotsmen. You can also attend the marriage of Strongbow and local princess Aiofe, who promises to teach her Anglo-Norman lord how the Irish feast.…
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Waterford County Museum
Small but nicely presented, this museum covers maritime history (with relics from shipwrecks), Famine history, local personalities and various other titbits, all displayed in a former wine store.
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Lismore Heritage Centre
Features a 30-minute audiovisual presentation taking you from the arrival of St Carthage in AD 636 to the present day via the discovery of the Book of Lismore behind a wall in the castle in 1814 and John F Kennedy's visit in 1947.
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Chorister's Hall
Set to open in 2012, this new museum traces the city's rich medieval past and covers all the steamy and stinky details of local life until 1700. It's located in the renovated 12th century Undercrofts. The star attraction will be the magnificent 1372 4m-long Great Charter Roll which shows portraits of five medieval kings of England.
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Bishop's Palace
This interactive museum detailing Waterford's long history is in the newly renovated Bishop's Palace (1741). It has dazzling displays covering Waterford's history from 1700 to 1970 and includes treasures from the city's collection, such as golden Viking brooches, jewel-encrusted Norman crosses and 18th-century church silver.
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Waterford Museum of Treasures
This is the umbrella name for three excellent museums which cover 1000 years of local history and shouldn't be missed.
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Edmund Rice International Heritage Centre
Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers, established his first school at Mt Sion on Barrack St. A whiz-bang interactive museum recreates life in 18th-century Waterford. It incorporates a chapel, where Edmund Rice's tomb takes pride of place, awaiting the anticipated canonisation of its occupant.
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