A Milltown Community Museum Open Day & Heritage Exhibition

Join us for our Heritage Week Museum Open Day and discover the rich history and heritage of our local area.

See the recently restored John Birmingham telescope, one of the museum's highlights, together with the newly conserved magic lantern and lantern slides.

Visitors can also explore a range of heritage displays, including the Our Famine Stories exhibition, featuring the Welch Letters and the Dawros Famine Relief Road, along with displays from the Our Irish Natural History project, developed in partnership with Milltown National School, Belmont National School and the National Museum of Ireland's Dead Zoo Lab.

Whether you're revisiting memories, exploring the museum for the first time or simply curious about Milltown's past, this is an opportunity to discover, explore and celebrate our local heritage.

The Museum Open Day forms part of Milltown Heritage Group's National Heritage Week programme, which also includes a presentation by Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile and Dr Oksana Dereza on Curraghaderry native Mícheál Ó Lócháin and An Gaodhal, the world's first Irish-language newspaper.