Museums: Constructing History Tour and Talk

Co. Dublin – Dublin City
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17 August 2025
Overview

Celebrate Heritage Week at the GPO Museum with a special guided tour showcasing the ways in which museums connect us with our history, providing a route to understanding events and people from the past.
Museums are the most direct way to learn about and understand the past. This creates unique opportunities and challenges when exploring a complex history and making it accessible for all ages and levels of knowledge. Using the creation of the GPO Museum and its exhibits, this special guided tour will demonstrate the tools and methods employed in museums to ensure everyone can connect to the past and the people who lived in it, no matter what your previous knowledge might be!
The tour will be followed by a short talk discussing how museums must balance condensing complex subjects into widely accessible topics while being accurate to the past’s events and recognising individuals can have their own ideas of what is true. In this way museum’s endeavour to ensure that objectivity is maintained and the perspectives of all involved are respected.
The event in total will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes, with fifty-five minutes allocated for the tour and twenty minutes for the talk.
The tour starts at 11am.
Please arrive 5 minutes before tour start time.
Please check in at the admissions desk in the museum on arrival.
Tickets are limited to 2 per person/email address. Any additional tickets bought under the same name/email address will be removed.
Tickets are non-transferable to another person, tour or date.
No outside food and drink except for water permitted in the museum.
If you have booked the tour and are unable to attend please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make the tickets available to other visitors.

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Co. Dublin – Dublin City

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