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Dublinia and The Viking World is a heritage centre, located in central Dublin, at the heart of the medieval city. These exciting exhibitions contain life-sized reconstructions which will take you back to Viking and Medieval Dublin with a variety of sights, sounds, and smells!
The Wax Museum Plus is the home of the starts & heroes. The National Wax Museum Plus is an exciting interactive visitor attraction located in the heart of Dublin's city centre Temple Bar district and just off Dame Street. The museum is housed over four floors and 13,000 square feet in a historic Foster Place landmark building, previously the home for Ireland's gold store and arms at the turn of the last century!
The museum is an outstandingly original visitor attraction and has been designed to deliver an interactive experience taking you on a journey through Irish cultural heritage, an enchanting children's zone of discovery, Ireland's only dedicated tribute to our top scientific inventors, a green screen video room, a fully functioning recording studio and all the exceptional life like wax work characters you can expect at the national wax museum.
The National Wax Museum Plus offers a museum experience unlike any other, whether you are young or old, a culture vulture or fun seeker, male or female, star struck or star studded, The National Wax Museum Plus is the ultimate entertainment experience for all.
The Heritage Council seeks to protect and enhance the richness, quality and diversity of our national heritage for everyone. We work with our partners, particularly at a local level to increase awareness of Ireland’s national heritage and to highlight its importance to public policy and everyday life. The Heritage Council assumed the role of coordinator of National Heritage Week from the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government in 2005. Since then the week has grown into a highly successful programme of over 1000 events which take place during the last week of August each year.
National Heritage Week 2010 will run from the 21st to the 29th of August.
City Hall is an outstanding example of the Georgian architecture for which Dublin is world-renowned. Tours of City Hall available free of charge to groups who arrange in advance. Audioguides and leaflets are available in English, Irish, German, Spanish, Italian and French. The building is fully wheelchair accessible.
Exchange Dublin is a new collective arts centre in Temple Bar, Dublin run entirely by young people and holding discussions, gigs, visual arts and performance. Most projects originate from the autonomous “Exchange Groups” that use the space as a hub for their activity. Representatives from these groups form the general Exchange Dublin Collective that programmes and coordinates events in the space. All work is voluntary and no one is paid.
The Exchange will host children’s art workshops for the Dublin Viking Festival on Sunday 22nd August from 1-4pm.
The Contemporary Music Centre - The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland.
The Centre is used, nationally and internationally, by performers, composers, promoters and members of the public interested in finding out more about music in Ireland. Its library and sound archive, open to the public free of charge, contain the only comprehensive collection in existence of music by Irish composers.
