With the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street now closed for much needed conservation and refurbishment works, a new Dead Zoo Lab is opening at the National Museum, Collins Barracks for the duration of its closure.
The Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks has been created to ensure the public continues to have an opportunity to see some of the most popular specimens from the natural history collection, alongside some rare and fascinating objects that haven’t been on display for many years.
The nature of the display of the natural history collection at the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street has been largely unchanged since Victorian times, and the Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks will be used by the National Museum to experiment with and test new methods of engaging the public in conversation with the collection, while the conservation and refurbishment work of the Merrion Street site is taking place.
The National Museum of Ireland is open seven days a week and admission is free.
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