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3. Museums<br />
www.RBK.ie<br />
National Museum of Ireland<br />
Kildare Street, Dublin 2<br />
01 677 7444<br />
www.museum.ie<br />
Chester Beatty Library<br />
Dublin Castle, Castle Street,<br />
Dublin 2<br />
01 407 0750<br />
www.cbl.ie<br />
Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest<br />
collections of Irish material heritage, culture and natural history in<br />
the world. The National Museum is home to a considerable<br />
collection of ancient artefacts which extends from the Mesolithic<br />
through to the end of the medieval period. Well known Irish<br />
treasures held on site include the Ardagh Chalice and the ‘Tara’<br />
Brooch. The National Museum also holds small collections of<br />
British and European antiquities as well as Classical and Egyptian<br />
material from the ancient Mediterranean.<br />
The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin is an art museum and library<br />
which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature<br />
paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts<br />
assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). It has been<br />
described as the finest collection of manuscripts and books made<br />
by a private collector in the 20th century. It includes representative<br />
samples of the world’s heritage (artistic, religious and secular)<br />
from about 2700 BC to the present century.<br />
Dublin Writers Museum<br />
18 Parnell Square, Dublin 1<br />
01 872 2077<br />
www.writersmuseum.com<br />
At the Writers Museum, Dublin’s literary celebrities from the past<br />
three hundred years are brought to life through their books, letters,<br />
portraits and personal items. Our door is permanently open and<br />
the Centre itself is a peaceful sanctuary for writers to escape the<br />
bustling city that rumbles outside. We make a point of providing<br />
tea, coffee, and free internet access to our members, be they writers<br />
or readers, and always welcome the general public to come in<br />
and look around our beautiful Georgian building and art collection.<br />
The building, a restored Georgian mansion on Parnell Square, is a<br />
treasure in itself. The writers featured in the Museum are those<br />
who have made an important contribution to Irish or international<br />
literature or, on a local level, to the literature of Dublin. It is a view<br />
of Irish literature from a Dublin perspective.<br />
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