Dublin’s newest museum shows a slice of life that’s quite different from visiting stately homes and public institutions. Instead, it shows the hard life of Dublin working people through tours of a reconstructed tenement building.
The museum, called 14 Henrietta Street, after its address, uses period furnishings, objects and building condition to show visitors how thousands of Dubliners lived in the 19th and 20th centuries, and oral histories to tell their stories.
The building itself is a rescue from almost certain destruction after being abandoned in 1979, but recent grants have enabled creation of the museum. The building wasn’t always a tenement, occupied by over 100 people at a time; it was originally built as the town home of a wealthy lord. For more details and photos of the museum from the Irish Independent, click HERE
