The National Famine Museum Strokestown Park opens its doors 

The Countrywide Famine Museum Strokestown Park opens its doors 

Adhering to €5 million investment The Nationwide Famine Museum Strokestown Park opens its doorways

The Nationwide Famine Museum | Strokestown Park has been transformed with a €5 million expense through Fáilte Ireland and Westward Holdings Ltd in partnership with the Irish Heritage Trust and today (1^st July) the doorways open up for people to love a new condition-of-the-artwork Nationwide Famine Museum, telling the full story of the Great Famine for the first time.

The new customer expertise includes a ‘3 in one’ ticket giving the enthralling new Nationwide Famine Museum, the historic walled gardens and woodland walk at Strokestown Park and the Palladian Residence with its unique furnishings and attributes. The House re-opens for excursions later on in July when conservation performs have been finished.

Given that 2015 the Irish Heritage Trust, a not-for-profit organisation, cares for and manages the property and has overseen this considerable redevelopment undertaking.  The re-imagined National Famine Museum tells the entire tale of the Wonderful Famine in a compelling fashion and explores the parallel life of Strokestown Park’s aristocratic landlords and their tenants in the course of this interval. Visitors will have a truly immersive expertise as the Museum breathtakingly takes local and nationwide tales from this tragic period of time in Ireland’s previous and provides them considerably to daily life.

A self-guided audio tour is on provide, obtainable in 6 languages, with a mixture of imaginative scene environment and ground breaking audio-visuals and contact screens. People will be ready to check out the tenants’ expertise of hunger, eviction and exile by means of voluntary and assisted migration though engaging with the landlord’s perspective, his electric power, his problem and controversial assassination and attain perception into a cataclysmic catastrophe that improved Ireland for good. 

Website visitors can also delight in the 6-acre walled gardens and Strokestown Park’s lush experienced woodlands. A brand new bright and modern-day Woodland Café is the icing on the cake. Positioned in the aged granary of Strokestown Park House, it is centered on serving superior-quality, seasonal, domestically sourced develop as perfectly as the best espresso and mouth watering treats, catering for all dietary wants.

Commenting on the opening John O’Driscoll, Standard Supervisor at The National Famine Museum | Strokestown Park said, “We are delighted to re-open our doors to welcome visitors to a brand new expertise and we offer you a large a variety of matters to do for all ages. We have established a collection of satisfying and enriching trails for our young site visitors in the new Museum as very well as in the beautiful walled gardens and woodland wander. We are also seeking ahead to welcoming back people who may well have been listed here before and driving visitor quantities further more for the tourism marketplace correct throughout Roscommon and Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands.”  

Of nationwide and worldwide significance, the Strokestown Park Archive is a total file of economic, social and estate background around a 300-year interval and presents a actual insight into lifestyle on one of Ireland’s good estates.  Artefacts and paperwork from Strokestown’s considerable archive – which is dwelling to the greatest assortment of product relating to the Great Famine – will be showcased in the course of the new Museum including the Cloonahee Petition. 

Anne O’Donoghue, CEO of the Irish Heritage Belief extra: “At our recent Local Museum Working day we ended up delighted to welcome around 600 visitors from the bordering local community to preview the new Countrywide Famine Museum and we are so grateful for their support and enthusiastic suggestions. We are happy that on the day quite a few website visitors working day signed up to our Irish Heritage Belief volunteering programme and will be a part of our amazing team of professional and new staff members, a lot of from the community neighborhood and surrounding area. As we put together to welcome website visitors when we open, we are self-confident that our local and talented crew of staff and volunteers will help us to deliver a welcoming and engaging knowledge at this this globe-class heritage tourist attraction of national and intercontinental importance.”

Additional aspects on The Countrywide Famine Museum | Strokestown Park can be considered at  www.strokestownpark.ie . The visitor attraction is open 7 days per week / 364 times of the calendar year and tickets can be pre-booked on line.

To stop by all a few attractions at Strokestown Park will take 3 to 4 several hours.

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