The Little Museum of Dublin
Georgian townhouse museum built entirely from artefacts donated by ordinary residents telling the city's story.
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This guide to The Little Museum of Dublin traces how the museum came to exist at all: in late 2010, magazine publisher Trevor White walked into Dublin City Council with an idea for a museum about the city itself, but no building, no collection and no money. You'll hear how his negotiation with council officials Declan Wallace and Michael Stubbs over a Georgian house on Saint Stephen's Green nearly went nowhere, and how a radio appeal brought in over a thousand donated objects within a fortnight, from a stained-glass panel to a decree signed by Eamon de Valera. Listen for the pot of Sudocrem among them, invented by a Dublin pharmacist.
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