The Dead Zoo

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Image courtesy of "The Irish Times"

The Dead Zoo: 'The guy who is doing the whale has a T-rex to put ... (The Irish Times)

TV review: RTÉ's film about the Natural History Musem's restoration captures a sense of the institution's eccentricity.

And that truly is Dublin in a nutshell. And the documentary errs in delving too deeply into the minutiae of the process. The people running it are a colourful bunch. As with much of the capital, the National History department of the National Museum of Ireland stands marooned in the distant past. What you want is a valentine to a typically unorthodox Irish institution. Or at least it was before they closed it to fix the roof.

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Image courtesy of "FM104"

'Dead Zoo' Begins Comeback (FM104)

Visitors will be able to catch a glimpse of Irish Animals, including the museum's iconic Giant Irish Deer, as well as its Wonder Cabinet. Next door to the ...

Next door to the entrance to Leinster House on Merrion Square, the Natural History Museum is the oldest museum in Ireland in continued use since it opened in the 1860s. "Before the renovations began, people said to us they hoped the Museum wouldn't change in any way". The Natural History Museum is reopening its ground floor today as work continues on the rest of the building, that's over 160 years old.

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