The Irish Museum of Time Exploring the Stories and the Science of Time - Past Present and Future

The Irish Museum of Time exploring the stories and the science of time - past present and future

The Viking Triangle Waterford

180111 Brochure.indd 1 15/01/2018 13:37:30 The Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson, FRSE

University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD Tel: +44 (0)1865 270242 Fax: +44 (0)1865 270085 [email protected]

28 November 2016

Dear Supporter,

A clear indicator of the project’s success can be found in the number of signi cant donations to Waterford Treasures Museums, which speaks to the high regard in which the initiative is held. These donations memorably include an extensive, exceptional collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish clocks and watches.

The proposed development of a new museum to the science and the story of marking and keeping time in Ireland is one which I support whole-heartedly. The Irish Museum of Time will tell the story of the technological advances in the making and marking of time in Ireland which kept the country apace with developments on continental Europe. In addi- tion, the museum aims to advance an interest in the sciences in Ireland, particularly among young people. Its development will bring additional historic buildings within the Viking Triangle into public use: the fteenth-century Almshouse and the nineteenth-century Greyfriars Church built within the curtilage of the substantial ruins of the former thirteenth-century Franciscan Friary.

Coming as I do from a long line of Waterford natives I support this development enthusiastically. I encourage you to add your support to this ambitious project, which aims to establish a world-class visitor attraction in the heart of our community. This new development will help further Waterford in its bid to become the leading cultural centre on the island of Ireland.

With best regards

180111 Brochure.indd 2 15/01/2018 13:37:31 The Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson, FRSE

University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD Tel: +44 (0)1865 270242 Fax: +44 (0)1865 270085 [email protected]

28 November 2016

Dear Supporter,

_ I am delighted to have this opportunity to congratulate Waterford City and County Council on the Viking Triangle, project’s most recent accolade: outright winner of The Great Place award at the European Urbanism Awards 2017. In just ve years, Waterford’s historic core has been transformed into a vibrant cultural district, and the only museum district on the island of Ireland. Table of Contents A clear indicator of the project’s success can be found in the number of signi cant donations to Waterford Treasures Museums, which speaks to the high regard in which the initiative is held. These donations memorably include an extensive, exceptional collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish clocks and watches. Building on the success of Waterford’s Viking Triangle 2

The proposed development of a new museum to the science and the story of marking and The Proposal – The Irish Museum of Time 14 keeping time in Ireland is one which I support whole-heartedly. The Irish Museum of Time will tell the story of the technological advances in the making and marking of time in Part I – The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars 16 Ireland which kept the country apace with developments on continental Europe. In addi- tion, the museum aims to advance an interest in the sciences in Ireland, particularly among Theme 1 – seven historic tableaux 18 young people. Its development will bring additional historic buildings within the Viking Triangle into public use: the fteenth-century Almshouse and the nineteenth-century Theme 2 – international story of Irish timekeeping 20 Greyfriars Church built within the curtilage of the substantial ruins of the former thirteenth-century Franciscan Friary. Theme 3 – what makes a clock tick? 22 Coming as I do from a long line of Waterford natives I support this development enthusiastically. I encourage you to add your support to this ambitious project, which aims to establish Theme 4 – a pocket guide to watches 24 a world-class visitor attraction in the heart of our community. This new development will help further Waterford in its bid to become the leading cultural centre on the island of Theme 5 – Time to play – interactive area for children and teenagers 26 Ireland. Theatre of Time - 3D experience 28 With best regards Part II - The Irish Museum of Time at the Almshouse 32 Dare to Enter – 3D Halloween and Irish Wake Experience 34

Rationale for the Irish Museum of Time 36 Financial Projections and Costings 40

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Almshouse Greyfriars King of the Vikings Reginald’s Tower 1190 AD St Olaf’s Hall 1467AD 1240AD & 1885AD Virtual Reality Museum Museum Treasures of 1050 & 1731 AD Adventure of Time Part II of Time Part I Viking Waterford

Medieval Museum Choristers’ Hall 1270 AD Bishop’s Palace Mayor’s Wine City Hall, Mayors’ House of Widows’ Christchurch 1743 AD Franciscan Friary Vault 1440 AD Treasury & Theatre Waterford Crystal Apartments Cathedral Treasures of 1240 AD Treasures 1702 AD 1773 AD 18th, 19th & 20th of Medieval Royal 1783 AD Est. 1783 AD century Waterford Waterford

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Kilkenny Waterford Treasures, Limerick Three Museums in the Viking Triangle - Waterford building on the success of Ireland’s only Medieval Museum Cork Choristers’ Hall museum district 1270 AD Bishop’s Palace Mayor’s Wine City Hall, Mayors’ House of Widows’ Christchurch 1743 AD Franciscan Friary Vault 1440 AD Treasury & Theatre Waterford Crystal Twice shortlisted, European Museum of the Year, 2002 and 2014 Apartments Cathedral Treasures of 1240 AD Treasures 1702 AD 1773 AD 18th, 19th & 20th of Medieval Royal 1783 AD Est. 1783 AD century Waterford Waterford

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AFTER 15/01/2018 13:37:42 180111 Brochure.indd 7 • Shortlisted for European Shortlisted • BestLeisure Tourism - • BestCultural Experience– • BestLocal Authority Tourism • for theMiesvander Shortlisted • New Build,StoneFederation • BestPublicBuilding 2014,Royal • Awards Museum oftheYear 2014 Waterford VikingTriangle. Waterford Viking Triangle Waterford Council &Co City Innovation –VikingTriangle, Rohe Award 2014 Great BritainAwards 2014 ofIreland Institute ofArchitects Medieval Museum visitor numbers visitor Museum Medieval

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AFTER 15/01/2018 13:37:48 180111 Brochure.indd 9 guides! funny friendly, such and vacation tour week two one my this during than from history Irish about more learned I house. 2017: July guided tour by the housekeeper and butler of the of butler and housekeeper the by tour guided Bishop’s Palace numbers visitor 2013 21,853 2014 20,067 2015 20,859 2016 21,448 2017 23,592 2018 25,480* 15/01/2018 13:37:50 2019 27,518* 9 2020 29,720* The Viking Triangle Epic Walking Tour – 11 national monuments – 1100 Years – 1100 paces

Tripadvisor August 2017: Wow! Does Derek know how to tell a story! It’s like being on a roller coaster without a seatbelt.

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Tripadvisor August 2017: Wow! Does Derek know how 2015 2019 2013 2018 2017 2016 2014 to tell a story! It’s like being on a roller coaster without a 2020 seatbelt. Viking Triangle visitor numbers 10 11

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Almshouse Greyfriars The Irish Museum St Olaf’s Hall 1467AD 1240AD & 1885AD 1050 & 1731 AD Museum Museum of Time - a two-part of Time Part II of Time Part I attraction in two of Waterford’s most significant buildings.

This unique attraction encompasses the entire island of Ireland with an emphasis on Ireland’s Ancient East.

Part I in Greyfriars will explore the science of time and the five thousand year story of how the passage of time was marked and recorded in Ireland and how it shaped and moulded the Irish landscape. Part II in the Almshouse - When Times Runs Out - explores how the traditions, rituals and superstitions of the Irish Wake shaped and moulded the Irish landscape and the very psyche of the Irish people. 14

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Almshouse Greyfriars The Irish Museum Generous Donation St Olaf’s Hall 1467AD 1240AD & 1885AD 1050 & 1731 AD Museum Museum of Time - a two-part Enabled by the donation of an extraordinary collection of museum- of Time Part II of Time Part I attraction in two of quality Irish clocks and watches, the new Irish Museum of Time will explore the story and the science of time for all age groups in Waterford’s most two remarkable historic buildings using spectacular state-of-the-art significant buildings. 3D technology. It’s about Time! - Exploring Time, our most precious gift in This unique attraction Ireland’s oldest city. Unlike most modern western countries Ireland does not have a encompasses the Museum of the Science of Time. It is now appropriate to consider entire island of Ireland such a museum, uniquely dedicated to the story of timekeeping in with an emphasis on Ireland and the wider world - past, present and future. Ireland’s Ancient East. The Collection The Irish Museum of the Science of Time can now be realized Part I in Greyfriars will thanks to an extraordinarily generous gift to Waterford Treasures explore the science of time and Three Museums in the Viking Triangle by Colman Curran and the five thousand year story his wife Elizabeth Clooney who have spent thirty years collecting of how the passage of time museum-quality Irish time pieces made by clock and watchmakers was marked and recorded in throughout the island of Ireland. Ireland and how it shaped and The unique collection consists of some thirty grandfather clocks moulded the Irish landscape. or long-case clocks, over 30 important bracket and wall clocks, Part II in the Almshouse 30 pocket watches and some interesting ephemera - all Irish! The - When Times Runs Out - collection represents the evolution of Irish timepieces and is a explores how the traditions, window into the technical, scientific, social, economic, political and rituals and superstitions of the art and craft history of Ireland, particularly in Ireland’s Ancient the Irish Wake shaped and East from the late 17th to the end of the 19th century. moulded the Irish landscape Our mission is to engage, entertain, educate and inspire. and the very psyche of the Irish people. 14 15

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The Location The Museum will be located in for very industrious French with the adjoining restaurant Greyfriars Street just off one of Huguenot refugees who were at leased from Waterford City and the city’s main thoroughfares that time fleeing persecution in County Council a themed cafe will Parade Quay and next to the France. be located with al fresco dining Tourist Office, in the very heart Connectivity facilities. The furnishing of this al of the Viking Triangle. It will be fresco area adjoining the Museum housed in a mid-19th century The Museum of Time is less of Time will have a horological former Methodist church built in than five minutes walk from the theme. the Gothic style, a granite-fronted Bishop’s Palace Museum, Christ building boasting a beautiful Church Cathedral, the Medieval hammer-beam roof and both Museum, Reginald’s Tower, King a rose window and a series of of the Vikings Virtual Reality lancet windows. The building is Adventure and the Almshouse Marking Church Time fully wheelchair accessible. in Cathedral Square where the Museum of Time Part II – When Outside the Friary a bronze On the south side of the church Time Runs Out – will be located. sculpture honours the Waterford stand the substantial ruins of Franciscan and renowned the medieval Franciscan Friary, The museum will be immediately theologian Fr Luke Wadding OFM founded in 1240 and dissolved beside the Tourist Office – (1588 - 1657) who founded two in 1540 as part of the English Discover Ireland Centre – and Irish colleges in Rome. Wadding Reformation. The friary became a seven minute walk from The was requested by the Pope to an almshouse known as the House of Waterford Crystal. reorder the Church calendar and Holy Ghost Hospital in the 1540s Riverside public car parking draw up the official list of saints’ which although moving to the facilities are only a two minute days or feast days by which the suburbs in the late 19th century, walk from the new museum via a Church year and that of the remains in operation today as one pedestrian crossing. faithful was punctuated. It was of the oldest surviving charities Tea Time – Coffee Time Wadding who fixed 17th March as in Ireland. After the Williamite St Patrick’s Day. victory of 1690, a portion of the Adjoining the new Museum of former Friary church was pressed Time on its north side is a small into use as a place of worship courtyard where in partnership

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The Location The Museum will be located in for very industrious French with the adjoining restaurant Greyfriars Street just off one of Huguenot refugees who were at leased from Waterford City and the city’s main thoroughfares that time fleeing persecution in County Council a themed cafe will Parade Quay and next to the France. be located with al fresco dining Tourist Office, in the very heart Connectivity facilities. The furnishing of this al of the Viking Triangle. It will be fresco area adjoining the Museum housed in a mid-19th century The Museum of Time is less of Time will have a horological 75,583* former Methodist church built in than five minutes walk from the theme. the Gothic style, a granite-fronted Bishop’s Palace Museum, Christ 69,984* building boasting a beautiful Church Cathedral, the Medieval hammer-beam roof and both Museum, Reginald’s Tower, King a rose window and a series of of the Vikings Virtual Reality lancet windows. The building is Adventure and the Almshouse Marking Church Time fully wheelchair accessible. in Cathedral Square where the Museum of Time Part II – When Outside the Friary a bronze On the south side of the church Time Runs Out – will be located. sculpture honours the Waterford stand the substantial ruins of Franciscan and renowned the medieval Franciscan Friary, The museum will be immediately theologian Fr Luke Wadding OFM founded in 1240 and dissolved beside the Tourist Office – (1588 - 1657) who founded two in 1540 as part of the English Discover Ireland Centre – and Irish colleges in Rome. Wadding Reformation. The friary became a seven minute walk from The was requested by the Pope to an almshouse known as the House of Waterford Crystal. reorder the Church calendar and Holy Ghost Hospital in the 1540s Riverside public car parking draw up the official list of saints’ which although moving to the facilities are only a two minute days or feast days by which the suburbs in the late 19th century, walk from the new museum via a Church year and that of the remains in operation today as one pedestrian crossing. faithful was punctuated. It was of the oldest surviving charities Tea Time – Coffee Time Wadding who fixed 17th March as 2015 2019 2013 2018 2017 2016 2014 in Ireland. After the Williamite 2020 St Patrick’s Day. victory of 1690, a portion of the Adjoining the new Museum of former Friary church was pressed Time on its north side is a small Projected Museum of Time into use as a place of worship courtyard where in partnership visitor numbers

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Theme 1 The Story of time in Ireland’s Ancient East Seven historic tableaux or vignettes will display the timepieces of Ireland’s Ancient East in their period settings with original furniture, paintings, silver, glass and ship instruments thereby allowing the visitor to appreciate two centuries of Irish technical, scientific and artistic genius. The stories will be communicated by touchscreen and by professional trained guides.

180111 Brochure.indd 18 15/01/2018 13:38:08 1. Time for Prayers – Late-17th fashion. Table, chair, book case stone of the proposed new 6. Time tables - Mid-19th The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars century Dublin long case clock with contemporary books, eye town, the recently-acquired century Kilkenny long case set in a tableau focusing on Bishop glasses, maps, map books, silk original plans of the town by the clock – exploring the urgent Thomas Milles who rebuilt St money purse, clay pipes, silver architect James Gandon, a 1784 necessity for clocks and watches Patrick’s church in 1726 and snuff boxes, Delamain plates from Swiss watercolour, captioned in in the age of the train. Victorian St Olaf’s in 1731. An original Dublin on the table. Sub-story on French, featuring the small port drawing room with its over-the- painting of the bishop, an early canal-building, the technological village of Passage East where the top furnishings and its echo of oak table, chair, press and cabinet, advances that made the canals Genevans would disembark and empire and railroad building that a very impressive early 18th possible with an emphasis on the lastly a contemporary chart of introduced timetables and the century communion cup and wine somewhat slower pace of life. Waterford harbour. The attempt need for accurate timekeeping. flagon commissioned by Bishop to bring the most up-to-date Victorian paintings, railway Milles, a pair of silver forks dated 4. Swiss Time - The primary foreign horological technology timetables, advertisements for to 1690 (oldest in Ireland), Milles’ exhibit will be a Swiss-made, into Waterford would have holidays by train etc. letters, pewter plates, books and late 18th century clock that transformed the industry in both 7. Maritime – Late-19th century prints featuring Waterford at this will become the primary object Britain and Ireland. When the Heine of Waterford long case period, will all be displayed here. through which one of the great venture failed, the state took over clock – this display will feature what if’s of Irish horological the site and made it into a British the office of the Malcomson Army barracks of 1798 fame. Theme 1 2. Making Time - Early-18th history will be explored – the shipbuilders who built the first century Waterford long case proposed building of a town in iron steam ships in Ireland. The The Story of time in Ireland’s clock by Drill, featuring a clock Waterford Harbour to be known 5. Buying Time - Early-19th office will be decorated with Ancient East and watch maker’s workshop, as New Geneva. The new town century Wexford long case paintings and photographs Seven historic tableaux or containing disassembled cases would house emigrant clock and clock featuring a typical clock of the Malcomson family vignettes will display the awaiting clocks and watches watch makers from Geneva in and watch shop with many 19th and memorabilia associated timepieces of Ireland’s Ancient and an array of different clock Switzerland. The Irish Parliament century pocket watches displayed with the innovative technical East in their period settings with faces. The whole idea here is supported the project and on as if for sale. A gentleman’s top achievements of this family original furniture, paintings, to chronicle the mechanical 4th June 1784 the foundation hat will feature on the counter of shipbuilders. Their most silver, glass and ship instruments advances in the making of clocks stone was laid. Unfortunately, together with examples of period famous steam ship the Neptune thereby allowing the visitor to and watches in the 18th century. the plan never materialised. The coins and paper money about inaugurated the London to appreciate two centuries of Irish fascinating story explaining why to be exchanged. The cost of St Petersburg line and on its technical, scientific and artistic 3. Leisure Time - Mid-18th will be brought to life through a watch, relative to the income arrival at St Petersburg the Tsar genius. century Drogheda long case clock remarkable artefacts. These of a labourer or middle class was presented with a suite of include the 1784 ceremonial merchant, will be investigated The stories will be communicated in a study/ library decorated and Waterford Glass. trowel used to lay the foundation here. by touchscreen and by furnished in the contemporary professional trained guides. 1 The Story of time in Ireland’s Ancient East 18 19

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Theme 2 The international story of Irish time keeping - people and places The stories of six individual Irish clock and watch makers will be a portal into the collection that will have a particular resonance for an international audience.

180111 Brochure.indd 20 15/01/2018 13:38:09 Doing Time - The Australian Family Time - The Canadian/ Revolutionary Times – The for posterity unknown to the The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars Connection Newfoundland Connection American Connection – President on the inner workings The anchor for the story of Crime The anchor for this story will be Philadelphia of the watch. and Punishment in Ireland and the Maddock long case clock and Featuring a longcase clock by the transportation to Australia the Maddock silver pocket watch Birnie from the small town of Time for Romance - The Galway for relatively small crimes will both made in Waterford in c1783. Parkgate County Antrim who Connection - The Romance of the be a long case clock made by the Irish clock and watch makers emigrated to Philadelphia in 1774. Claddagh Ring Waterford city watch and clock were often family businesses Despite the fact that he was a maker Philip Brogan, recorded as and as was common in Ireland loyalist and supported British In the 19th century another working at No 25 Michael Street many qualified younger sons left rule in the colonies Birnie became member of the Dillon family in 1821. In 1842 he was convicted the family business to establish involved in the production of clock and watch makers at Kilkenny Assizes for stealing themselves in other Irish towns or of guns for the American in Waterford also sought a and selling a gold watch given to overseas. revolutionary army led by George livelihood further afield in Galway establishing himself and him for repair and transported In the 18th century a member Washington. However following to Van Diemen’s Land (now American independence he being beginning the first commercial of the Maddock family of sales of the now-famous Claddagh Tasmania) for seven months. Waterford emigrated to St John’s a loyalist moved to Montreal where he resumed business. Ring. A grandfather clock On 20 December 1842 he sailed in Newfoundland where he made by the Dillons during the from Dublin on the convict ship established himself and prospered Victorian era is still keeping time North Briton and after 105 days during the expansion of the world War Time - The American in the sacristy of the Roman at sea, he arrived at Van Diemen’s famous cod fishery that harvested Connection – New York Catholic church in Tramore Land on 4 April 1843. 179 the Grand Banks in the North County Waterford. convicts were transported on his Atlantic. Back home in Waterford A member of the Waterford ship and one died en-route. The the family business also prospered Dillon family moved to New ship’s surgeon, James L Clarke, because of the success the York where he plied the trade reported that Philip was very Newfoundland fishery brought to learned in his father’s premises Theme 2 short in stature - 5 foot 1 inch the city both in providing labour in Broad Street and found work (1.55m) and that he was of good and provisioning the ships sailing with a local jeweller. One of the The international story of Irish character. Sadly, Philip Brogan to Canada for the fishing season. first jobs he was tasked with was time keeping - people and places died at Westbury less than two About half the population of to repair President Lincoln’s only The stories of six individual Irish months after his arrival at the Newfoundland are descendants pocket watch. While making clock and watch makers will be a estimated age of fifty-five with of emigrants from Ireland’s the repairs the first shots of the portal into the collection that will cause of death being recorded Ancient East, Wexford, Kilkenny, American Civil War rang out – a have a particular resonance for simply as ‘disease’. Tipperary and Waterford. momentous event he recorded an international audience. 2 The international story of Irish time keeping - people & places 20 21

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Theme 3 What makes a clock tick? For the first time in Ireland, using touchscreen technology and original timepieces from right across the island of Ireland, the ingenious engineering skills of clockmakers from all over the island of Ireland will be showcased. The different mechanisms will be explored as will the changes made to the face of the clock brought on by both technical changes and by fashion.

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• Ballymena, Co Antrim Parkgate Strabane • Belfast Belfast • Carlow Downpatrick • Clonmel, Co Tipperary Monaghan • Cork Tandragee • Down • Drogheda Dundalk • Dublin • Dundalk Drogheda • Galway Dublin • Kilkenny Galway • Limerick Theme 3 • Monaghan What makes a clock tick? • Parkgate, Co Antrim Carlow For the first time in Ireland, • Strabane, Co Tyrone using touchscreen technology Kilkenny • Tandragee, Co Armagh and original timepieces from right across the island of Ireland, • Waterford Limerick Clonmel Wexford the ingenious engineering skills • Wexford Waterford of clockmakers from all over the island of Ireland will be showcased. Cork The different mechanisms will be explored as will the changes made to the face of the clock brought on by both technical changes and by fashion. 3 What makes a clock tick? 22 23

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Theme 4 A pocket guide to watches The visitor walks around two holograms of a watch which show the deconstructed and reconstructed intricate inner workings. Thirty exquisite pocket watches from all over the island of Ireland but mainly from Ireland’s Ancient East with their awe- inspiring inner workings will be dramatically showcased. This will be accompanied by an interactive map of Ireland featuring iconic images of each town or city in which they were made or sold. This interactive will also feature a brief story of each timepiece and of its maker and/or owner.

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Theme 5 Time to play – interactive area for children and teenagers

180111 Brochure.indd 26 15/01/2018 13:38:15 The precise measurement of time sequence daily events or stages Tabletop touchscreen interactives Hickory Dickory Dock, The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars lies at the heart of science, society, in a story. Annual birthdays are will allow children to the mouse ran up the clock, computing, history and the study celebrated. • explore the concept of time of space and is critical to our These concepts are developed zones and why the time in the clock struck one, advance into the future. We see incrementally all through the Waterford / Dublin is different the mouse ran down, it as critical to get children and primary school cycle with from say New York and Tokyo young people from an earliest age additional vocabulary introduced and how this is aligned to the Hickory Dickory Dock. interested in the science of time. around the seasons, today, earth’s movement around the Working in partnership yesterday and tomorrow; soon, sun. Thought to be based on the with Calmast (Centre for the not yet; festivals, holidays and • learn about how much of their astronomical clock at Exeter Advancement of Learning significant events. During Senior time they spend sleeping and in Cathedral which has a small hole in Mathematics and Science Infants the notion of reading the school etc and make them more in the door below the face for the Technology) in Waterford clock is introduced taking the conscious of the need to make resident cat to hunt mice. Institute of Technology children notion of one-hour intervals as the most of time. will learn in a fun way about time. the starting point. Thus, from • explore the fascinating science Developing children’s grasp the age of five or six children of dendrochronology and of time and chronology is are expected to grasp and how it helps us understand a notoriously difficult task. utilise the concept of time in a environmental changes and It encompasses not just sophisticated trans-disciplinary date archaeological objects and mathematical concepts but also manner. The Museum of Time sites. an understanding of science and recognises the challenges that present to our educators and • animated nursery rhymes history. The concept of time is associated with time for very introduced as a key element of the seeks to support the Primary curriculum teaching of time young children will ensure that curriculum from Junior Infants all of the family gets something when the appropriate vocabulary across the appropriate subjects of Mathematics, Geography and from a visit to the museum. is introduced – morning, evening, • enjoy ‘On This Day’ birthday night, day, lunchtime, bedtime, History by providing a framework that supports the National profiles. By tapping in your early, late, as well as the days of date of birth on the touch the week. The language of time Curriculum’s guidelines on teaching time and chronology to screen interactive you can is employed to discuss news and get a souvenir printout of the events, to record the weather pupils. Theme 5 great events that took place in for each day on a chart and to history on your birth day. Time to play – interactive area for children and teenagers 5 Time to play – interactive area for children and teenagers 26 27

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3D experience Creating the WOW factor – from Newgrange to the Waterford Crystal Millennium Ball This very dramatic presentation will highlight, support and reinforce the ‘ANCIENT’ element of Ireland’s Ancient East as a historic entity. To create a memorable five star Trip Advisor experience the 3D theatre/film will be spectacularly panoramic and state of the art. To this end Oculus Rift 3D technology will be employed to bring the visitor on an immersive 3D journey across the dramatic and green landscape of Ireland’s Ancient East exploring both the science and history of timekeeping through the last 5,000 years in Ireland. A sub-story will look at the great international events in recording time that ultimately impacted on Ireland.

180111 Brochure.indd 28 15/01/2018 13:38:16 Marking Time in Ireland’s marked time for the local 20th century water clock at The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars Ancient East communities. Kilruddery County Wicklow. • Marking Time in the Stone • Marking Time in Medieval • Ending with the spectacular Age – exploring how our Ireland - medieval sundials millennium celebrations at ancestors built passage tombs can be found in many sites in New York that featured the such as Newgrange County Ireland’s Ancient East and the Waterford Crystal Millennium Meath to mark the winter presentation will explore how Ball. solstice or Knockroe County these were used to calculate 3D experience Kilkenny which marked both time. Creating the WOW factor – from winter and summer solstices • Marking time in late - Newgrange to the Waterford • Marking Time in the Bronze Medieval Ireland - over one Crystal Millennium Ball Age - featuring the stone hundred and fifty monasteries, This very dramatic presentation circles used to calculate the priories and friaries in Ireland’s will highlight, support and passage of time throughout Ancient East built bell towers reinforce the ‘ANCIENT’ element Ireland’s Ancient East. in the 15th century and their of Ireland’s Ancient East as a • Marking time in the Iron Age/ bells are recorded as waking historic entity. Celts - examining many of the the population and regulating their day. To create a memorable five star mythological and sacred sites • Marking Time in the 18th and Trip Advisor experience the 3D across Ireland’s Ancient East 19th centuries - the study of theatre/film will be spectacularly such as Laoghaire Fort, the hill astronomy in these centuries panoramic and state of the of Uisneach and Rathnew all in with an emphasis on for art. To this end Oculus Rift 3D County Meath and exploring example Birr Castle whose 19th technology will be employed how the ancient Irish marked century owner boasted the to bring the visitor on an Bealtaine - May Day and the largest telescope on Earth and immersive 3D journey across the earth goddess Eriu and the Sun the remarkable CIT Blackrock dramatic and green landscape of God Lugh. Castle Observatory in Cork. Ireland’s Ancient East exploring • Marking Time in Early We will also explore how both the science and history Christian Ireland - with the almost every middle size town of timekeeping through the emphasis on our famous in Ireland’s Ancient East had its last 5,000 years in Ireland. A round towers of which there own clock and watch maker. sub-story will look at the great are almost thirty in Ireland’s international events in recording Ancient East, we will explore • Marking Time in the 20th time that ultimately impacted on how these iconic buildings century - the quirky early Ireland. Theatre of Time - 3D theatre experience 28 29

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clockwise direction transporting then forward in history to learn days for the earth to circle the the visitor back in time so fast how each hour was divided into sun but 365 and a quarter days that they find themselves in outer sixty minutes and forward again – thus giving us a leap year. It is space at the beginning of time to see how and why each minute an interesting footnote to history with the Big Bang! was divided into sixty seconds. that a Waterford man, Peter The visitor is now ‘transported The visitor learns the science Lombard Archbishop of Armagh, inter-galactically’ and looks down behind how years, months, days, then resident in Rome, was on with some trepidation to witness hours, minutes, seconds and the Papal commission that tried planet Earth revolving below in modern sport even tenths Galileo for claiming that the sun them. For twenty seconds the of seconds are calculated and and not the earth was the centre whole concept of time passing on recorded. of the universe! earth is challenged and how time The history behind the naming The leap year introduced by is marked in the universe. How of years, months and days is Pope Gregory was not accepted and why do we measure time? also explored with reference to in Russia or Britain where the Do we grow old in space and how Chinese, ancient Roman, Viking reformed Church stayed with long is a light year? Does time and medieval history. Explore the old time. This anomaly The experience begins bend? Then as part of the planet the early clocks of the Greeks, was rectified in 1752 when the moves from darkness to light a sundials used in monasteries and Gregorian calendar was accepted The experience will begin with a new day is born and the visitor is the purpose of bell towers in the and the twelve day difference bird’s eye view of the 1864 neo- invited to explore TIME our most absence of public and private between Britain and the rest of Gothic limestone and granite clock precious commodity and how it clocks and watches, how popes Europe was rectified. People went tower standing on the Quays in was recorded over five thousand and monarchs calculated the to bed on 2 September 1752 and Waterford today. As the visitors years in Ireland’s Ancient East as passage of time with Regnal and woke up on 14 September 1752. swoop down from the sky circling outlined above. Papal years. This led to street riots as people the tower the door opens and they thought that the government was are brought inside to experience A sub-story will explore the international story of time. actually taking twelve days of the mechanical workings of the The Leap Year their lives. clock as if they are physically Copernicus and Galileo - How within its workings. An Era of Scientific Discovery 24 Hours and 60 Minutes the science behind the discovery As the clockwork mechanism We will move forward in From there on to Babylon and that the world was not the centre goes into reverse the hands on the time to the introduction of Egypt where mathematicians first of the universe resulted in the clock start to rotate in an anti- clocks and watches in Ireland divided the day into 24 hours and realisation that it took not 365

180111 Brochure.indd 30 15/01/2018 13:38:18 and Britain and explore the cities and towns their lives became Personal time - how we mark it The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars problems of keeping time at sea more and more dominated by with birthdays, anniversaries, and the need to be accurate to timekeeping and schedules. gravestones etc. calculate longitude. The accurate clockwise direction transporting then forward in history to learn days for the earth to circle the With the advances in technology Daylight saving time - why it was calculation of latitude opened modern humans became more and introduced and why do we persist the visitor back in time so fast how each hour was divided into sun but 365 and a quarter days up a whole era of scientific that they find themselves in outer sixty minutes and forward again – thus giving us a leap year. It is more obsessed with timekeeping with it? To save power and during exploration and discovery. How and speed. With the cutting of wartime etc. space at the beginning of time to see how and why each minute an interesting footnote to history does a pendulum clock work in with the Big Bang! was divided into sixty seconds. that a Waterford man, Peter journey times the race to be faster The presentation will end on a rough seas? The competition and faster had begun first with The visitor is now ‘transported The visitor learns the science Lombard Archbishop of Armagh, organised by the British Admiralty lighthearted philosophical note behind how years, months, days, then resident in Rome, was on the ocean liners and then with featuring famous and not so inter-galactically’ and looks down and the use of Greenwich the airplanes and jets, Concord with some trepidation to witness hours, minutes, seconds and the Papal commission that tried Meantime will all be explained famous quotes in history and in modern sport even tenths Galileo for claiming that the sun breaking the sound barrier etc. In literature relating to time Dickens, planet Earth revolving below as will the reasons behind every sport new technology meant that them. For twenty seconds the of seconds are calculated and and not the earth was the centre port having a clock whereby the Shakespeare for example time and recorded. of the universe! athletes could win or lose by a tide waits for no man. whole concept of time passing on ship’s captain regulated the ship’s tenth of a second and the accurate earth is challenged and how time The history behind the naming The leap year introduced by timepiece before he left port. An stop watch had finally taken over. is marked in the universe. How of years, months and days is Pope Gregory was not accepted epic struggle ensues between and why do we measure time? also explored with reference to in Russia or Britain where the astronomers and mechanical Do we grow old in space and how Chinese, ancient Roman, Viking reformed Church stayed with clockmakers with the latter long is a light year? Does time and medieval history. Explore the old time. This anomaly winning out. The experience begins bend? Then as part of the planet the early clocks of the Greeks, was rectified in 1752 when the With the industrial revolution moves from darkness to light a sundials used in monasteries and Gregorian calendar was accepted came the railways and their The experience will begin with a new day is born and the visitor is the purpose of bell towers in the and the twelve day difference strict timetables and the need bird’s eye view of the 1864 neo- invited to explore TIME our most absence of public and private between Britain and the rest of grew for people to carry accurate Gothic limestone and granite clock precious commodity and how it clocks and watches, how popes Europe was rectified. People went timepieces. Educators such as tower standing on the Quays in was recorded over five thousand and monarchs calculated the to bed on 2 September 1752 and Edmund Ignatius Rice founder of Waterford today. As the visitors years in Ireland’s Ancient East as passage of time with Regnal and woke up on 14 September 1752. the Christian Brothers introduced swoop down from the sky circling outlined above. Papal years. This led to street riots as people clocks to the school room so that the tower the door opens and they thought that the government was students would learn the time and are brought inside to experience A sub-story will explore the actually taking twelve days of the importance of timekeeping the mechanical workings of the international story of time. The Leap Year their lives. when they got employment. As clock as if they are physically Copernicus and Galileo - How people fled the land to work in within its workings. An Era of Scientific Discovery 24 Hours and 60 Minutes the science behind the discovery As the clockwork mechanism We will move forward in From there on to Babylon and that the world was not the centre goes into reverse the hands on the time to the introduction of Egypt where mathematicians first of the universe resulted in the clock start to rotate in an anti- clocks and watches in Ireland divided the day into 24 hours and realisation that it took not 365 Theatre of Time - 3D theatre experience 30 31

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2. Father Time funerary monument 1770, Christ Church Cathedral Waterford.

When Time Runs Out – five thousand years of the Irish Wake in Ireland’s Ancient East – exploring the traditions, rituals and superstitions of the Irish Wake and burial customs that shaped and moulded both the Irish landscape and the Irish psyche concluding with the American Wake.

180111 Brochure.indd 32 15/01/2018 13:38:20 Location – The Dead Centre of Church Cathedral, the Bishop’s of the building from almshouse Part II - The Irish Museum of Time at the Almshouse Waterford Palace and the King of the Vikings in the 15th century to a tenement The Museum of Time Part II Virtual Reality Adventure. in the 20th century. Each of six will be located in Cathedral Origins of the Almshouse rooms, furnished to represent a Square and housed in the former century of the building’s life, will The Almshouse experience showcase the practices of the Irish Almshouse and the conjoined will complement the Medieval building that functioned as a shop wake in each century in Ireland’s Museum and Christ Church Ancient East. in medieval times. Rents from Cathedral visitor experiences. the shop, thought to be the oldest The Almshouse, founded by Dean Highlights of the collection surviving in Ireland, were used John Collyn and James Rice in the • 3,000 year old burial urn with for the upkeep of the Almshouse. 1460s, operated until the reign cremated remains The present day Cathedral of King Edward VI in 1550. The • Viking-age bronze pins used to Square was from Viking times Medieval Museum is built over until the 19th century used as a fasten the cloaks in which the both Collyn’s Deanery and James Vikings buried their dead cemetery so when marketing the Rice’s Wine Vault. Collyn’s cloth- Almshouse we will emphasise the of-gold vestments and Rice’s Great • Oldest death mask in Ireland, fact that it is located in the dead Parchment Book, the royal sword dating to 1657 2. Father Time funerary centre of Waterford! Rice used in medieval processions • Numerous wills, dating from monument 1770, Christ Church The laneway to the rear of the together with a charter sealed and the 17th and 18th centuries Cathedral Waterford. Almshouse was referred to in signed by him are all on display • Unique memore morte silver medieval documents as the King’s in the Medieval Museum while picture, 1704 Highway leading to Greyfriars. in Christ Church Cathedral Rice’s Since the 18th century the gruesome cadaver tomb survives • Rare collection of exquisite laneway has been known as from 1481. gold mourning jewellery encrusted with pearls, precious Chairman’s Arch, a reference This very compact and hugely stones and ivory, including When Time Runs Out – five to the fact that the archway atmospheric building dates from the specially commissioned thousand years of the Irish terminating the lane is where 1467 when it was built as a God’s mourning cross for Emperor Wake in Ireland’s Ancient East – sedan chairmen set down while waiting room for the aged of the Napoleon I exploring the traditions, rituals they waited for their charges to city and was known as the God’s and superstitions of the Irish return from divine service in the Men’s House. • World War I letters and nearby Christ Church Cathedral. memorabilia of dead soldiers, Wake and burial customs that Here in Ireland’s oldest urban Both parts of the Museums of known as the ‘Dead Man’s shaped and moulded both the house, visitors will experience Time are less than a three minute Penny’ Cadaver tomb of Mayor James Irish landscape and the Irish the changing customs of the Irish psyche concluding with the walk from each other and from Rice 1481, Christ Church wake, the origins of Hallowe’en Cathedral Waterford, co-founder American Wake. the Medieval Museum, Christ and in parallel, the changing use of the Almshouse. 32 33

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Dare to Enter – 3D Halloween and customs around death and burial, pray for the souls of the dead ground like dogs…dressing their Irish Wake Experience right up to the fortified cemeteries benefactors to release them from graves with flower pots and wax of the 18th and 19th century to Purgatory. Featured also will be a candles. The story here will be told The experience begins in the prevent body-snatchers stealing copy of Dean Collyn’s will, a copy by the hologram ghost of Bishop conjoined property No 2 Cathedral the valuables and the corpses for of an original Papal bull granting Middleton who as a reformer Square housing reception and dissection and anatomy - a time indulgences and the remission of condemns the local Catholic the 3D theatre experience. when night watchmen feared for sins after death and a notice from population for their superstitious With 3D glasses the visitor is their lives! Up to the monumental the Dean prohibiting the removal rituals and customs regarding transported back in time in a funerary monuments of the of tiles from the cathedral floor the waking of the dead and their sometimes spooky, frightening Victorians culminating in the to facilitate burials. In the will he burial. but always spectacular, panoramic great round tower at Glasnevin. allows his friend Mayor James immersive 3D experience Rice permission to build onto the 3. In a 17th century room exploring the rituals, traditions The visitor then enters the 650 Cathedral a special chapel and furnished with original furniture and superstitions surrounding year old former Almshouse that cadaver tomb to hold his mortal the visitor is transported to an death and the Irish Wake from morphed over the centuries into a remains. The story here will be era when the plague still stalked the dawn of time all the way tenement in the 20th century. As told by the ghost of Dean John the land. A plague victim huddles through to the Irish and American they enter each room a hologram Collyn a man totally obsessed in the corner dying of plague, wakes of the 19th and early 20th is activated of a ghost who tells with death and the waking of the knowing that she will not get century. The origins and customs the story of death and the Irish dead in the 15th century. a traditional burial but be put associated with Hallowe’en will wake in one of the six centuries. in a mass grave outside the city also be explored. To achieve this we plan to use 2. Here in a 16th century room walls because the plague is so an unobtrusive hologram - short the visitor experiences the clash contagious. It is implicit that While the experience will throw projector in each room. of cultures specifically relating she contracted the plague from encompass all of the island of to how the Reformation changed a soldier. Waterford has rare Ireland it will draw mainly on Rooms 1-6 beliefs and customs relating to records of numbers of plague examples from Ireland’s Ancient death. The Protestant reforming victims from the 1600s when East. It begins with the death 1. In this room with its large 15th century chimney piece and bishop of Waterford Marmaduke conquering Elizabethan and rituals of Newgrange and other Middleton writes at his desk Cromwellian soldiers were billeted Neolithic sites such as dolmens large brass cauldron the visitor experiences the cooking of gruel about what he called the Papist in the city. The remnant of a and wedge tombs, to the cist superstitious customs associated limestone gravestone featuring a burials of the Bronze Age, to for a dying inmate; on the wall are the severe rules and regulations with wakes, death and burial in mermaid stands in the corner of the sacrificial bog bodies of the the city – Waked in their houses the room representing the deadly Iron Age through the Christian of the institution – they had to rise three times each night to with dirges and after cast into the sins of lust and vanity. Original

180111 Brochure.indd 34 15/01/2018 13:38:22 clay pipes are to hand. The story servants are properly attired and late 20th century bedsit The Irish Museum of Time at the Almshouse here will be told by the hologram suitably grieving at his wake and now occupied by an osteo- ghost of the City Recorder whose burial. archaeologist excavating Viking job it was to record Council Age Waterford. She has an Dare to Enter – 3D Halloween and customs around death and burial, pray for the souls of the dead ground like dogs…dressing their legislation and other official 5. An original 19th century room: obsession with death, around the Irish Wake Experience right up to the fortified cemeteries benefactors to release them from graves with flower pots and wax documents and to record the a paraffin lamp burns, the mirror room are books and drawings of the 18th and 19th century to Purgatory. Featured also will be a candles. The story here will be told numbers of those who died of is covered by a cloth and a corpse featuring the archaeology of The experience begins in the prevent body-snatchers stealing copy of Dean Collyn’s will, a copy by the hologram ghost of Bishop is laid out in a coffin next to an conjoined property No 2 Cathedral plague in the city. death from Newgrange up to the the valuables and the corpses for of an original Papal bull granting Middleton who as a reformer iron bed. The display shows signs 19th century. On her table is an Square housing reception and dissection and anatomy - a time indulgences and the remission of condemns the local Catholic 4. The 18th century is represented of heavy drinking, snuff and the 3D theatre experience. original three thousand year old when night watchmen feared for sins after death and a notice from population for their superstitious by a gentleman writing his last tobacco taking. Religious pictures Bronze Age urn containing the With 3D glasses the visitor is their lives! Up to the monumental the Dean prohibiting the removal rituals and customs regarding will and testament in a room and relics adorn the room and transported back in time in a cremated remains of a high status funerary monuments of the of tiles from the cathedral floor the waking of the dead and their with original furniture. About the Rosary is recited… women individual and the skeletons of sometimes spooky, frightening Victorians culminating in the to facilitate burials. In the will he burial. the room are displayed black- keening are the background but always spectacular, panoramic Waterford Vikings from the great round tower at Glasnevin. allows his friend Mayor James edged mourning writing paper, sounds. Original prayer books, excavations. Here we show how immersive 3D experience Rice permission to build onto the 3. In a 17th century room black gloves and top hats and the rosary beads, mortuary cards and exploring the rituals, traditions The visitor then enters the 650 furnished with original furniture rituals and customs associated Cathedral a special chapel and ubiquitous snuff box. He leaves brass coffin plates are featured. with death can be traced back and superstitions surrounding year old former Almshouse that cadaver tomb to hold his mortal the visitor is transported to an money to the Church and the Then a voice over of a typical 19th death and the Irish Wake from morphed over the centuries into a era when the plague still stalked to the first settlers a theme that remains. The story here will be stonemason for a gravestone century travel writer begins to is explored in more detail in the the dawn of time all the way tenement in the 20th century. As told by the ghost of Dean John the land. A plague victim huddles decorated with the symbols of the condemn the excesses of the Irish through to the Irish and American they enter each room a hologram in the corner dying of plague, 3D experience in the conjoined Collyn a man totally obsessed passion of Christ a common motif Wake. There will deliberately be building. The guide will regale wakes of the 19th and early 20th is activated of a ghost who tells with death and the waking of the knowing that she will not get of this period. He leaves money no hologram in this room, the idea century. The origins and customs the story of death and the Irish a traditional burial but be put the visitors with stories about dead in the 15th century. to buy mourning costumes for being to enhance the experience death and the house that they associated with Hallowe’en will wake in one of the six centuries. in a mass grave outside the city his servants to attend the funeral by catching the visitor off guard. also be explored. To achieve this we plan to use 2. Here in a 16th century room walls because the plague is so are visiting and how it started and show suitable expressions of As the visitor moves around the its life as an almshouse for the an unobtrusive hologram - short the visitor experiences the clash contagious. It is implicit that sadness, loss and sorrow at his room and out of curiosity looks While the experience will throw projector in each room. of cultures specifically relating she contracted the plague from dying poor becoming by the 20th encompass all of the island of passing. The story here will be into the coffin, the corpse rises century a tenement where the to how the Reformation changed a soldier. Waterford has rare told by the ghost a rich merchant up. During the summer season a Ireland it will draw mainly on Rooms 1-6 beliefs and customs relating to records of numbers of plague resident, a traumatized World examples from Ireland’s Ancient who is obsessed with the public student will be employed to play War I machine gunner, carved 1. In this room with its large death. The Protestant reforming victims from the 1600s when East. It begins with the death perception of him when he passes the corpse that comes to life. tombstones on the kitchen floor 15th century chimney piece and bishop of Waterford Marmaduke conquering Elizabethan and rituals of Newgrange and other over and he makes detailed and his daughter who emigrated large brass cauldron the visitor Middleton writes at his desk Cromwellian soldiers were billeted 6. In about 1986 the house Neolithic sites such as dolmens arrangements to ensure that his to the United States visited experiences the cooking of gruel about what he called the Papist in the city. The remnant of a becomes a tenement and this and wedge tombs, to the cist superstitious customs associated limestone gravestone featuring a room is furnished as a typical convicts on death row. burials of the Bronze Age, to for a dying inmate; on the wall are the severe rules and regulations with wakes, death and burial in mermaid stands in the corner of the sacrificial bog bodies of the the city – Waked in their houses the room representing the deadly Iron Age through the Christian of the institution – they had to rise three times each night to with dirges and after cast into the sins of lust and vanity. Original The Almshouse visitor experience 34 35

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The Irish Museum of Time is a which we aim to attract a broad County an international tourist increasing footfall into the new cutting-edge two-part visitor audience. destination in its own right. Triangle. attraction to be developed on • The Museum will add to the • The new attraction will help • It conserves and brings two adjacent sites in the Viking present museum attractions, to increase dwell time in into public use two historic Triangle in Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford Museum of Waterford city and will be properties the Almshouse the island of Ireland’s only Treasures, Three Museums among the flagship attractions dated to the 1460s and dedicated museum district with in the Viking Triangle, by of Ireland’s Ancient East the 19th century church eleven national monuments. It creating a greater critical mass that at present lags behind Greyfriars which add greatly will: of all-weather attractions that Ireland’s more favoured to the attractions of the Viking • increase Waterford Treasures, will appeal to a very broad tourist destinations in terms of Triangle. The main premise Three Museums in the Viking audience. international visitors. is to peel back and expose the Triangle visitor numbers to • Inclusion of a strong education • Within the Viking Triangle this layers of history in Ireland’s 250,000 by 2019 element will ensure the new attraction will bring life oldest city and make its • attract non-standard museum viability of the new Museum and vibrancy into Cathedral 1100-year-old history come visitors eg social energisers in the off-season, ensuring its Square at the very heart of the to life by entertaining and engaging storytelling. • prolong visitor stay and spend sustainability. Triangle and take advantage • The projected increase in of Waterford Council’s • The project exploits fully the • tell stories in better ways using partnership with a private fantastic assets recently gifted latest technology visitor numbers to all the Viking Triangle attractions is concern in a new café tapas bar to the museum - a collection of • create employment and predicated on the continued beside the Almshouse which museum-quality Irish long case contribute to city centre success of t he Waterford opened in 2017. and carriage clocks together regeneration Greenway to attract in excess • By animating Cathedral Square with gold and silver watches • raise Waterford profile as a of 250,000 visitors annually, as the Museum of Time Part II dating from 1690 to 1890. tourist destination, only Irish was achieved in 2017. The all- will help rectify the present The clocks and watches were city with a museum district weather Irish Museum of Time, disconnect between the manufactured all over Ireland’s • The universal themes of the with its appeal to younger Triangle and the retail core by Ancient East. Museum – the story and visitors - Great Escapers connecting the Viking Triangle • The museum’s use of science of Time and the quirky and Social Energisers - will with City Square Shopping innovative hologram and 3D story of the iconic Irish Wake complement the Greenway, Centre Waterford’s primary immersive technology together will have international appeal. making Waterford City and retail centre (and its large with the museum quality of the • The theme has three aspects, underground carpark), thereby historic Irish timepieces and historic, scientific and social by complementary Irish objects on

180111 Brochure.indd 36 15/01/2018 13:38:22 Rationale for the Irish Museum of Time display will ensure a very broad Viking Triangle attraction. This Waterford Treasures will feature the potential to extend the tourist audience. The second element local community element makes the Irish Museum of Time on season to the end of October / - the quirky, left-of-centre, for a very personal welcoming all its brochures and publicity beginning of November by linking The Irish Museum of Time is a which we aim to attract a broad County an international tourist increasing footfall into the slightly spooky, macabre and atmosphere especially for our material and will represent it at all it with an annual festival that new cutting-edge two-part visitor audience. destination in its own right. Triangle. lighthearted exploration of the international visitors. trade fairs and other promotional would be continuously promoted attraction to be developed on • The Museum will add to the • The new attraction will help • It conserves and brings Irish Wake and the traditions Ticketing events as one of the attractions in the Museum of Time Part II. two adjacent sites in the Viking present museum attractions, to increase dwell time in into public use two historic and rituals surrounding death of the already-successful brand The Halloween festival would Triangle in Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford Museum of Waterford city and will be properties the Almshouse Waterford Treasures will over six centuries and the Waterford Treasures. Waterford involve a marvellously-macabre the island of Ireland’s only Treasures, Three Museums among the flagship attractions dated to the 1460s and operate a ‘Freedom of Waterford’ customs of Hallowe’en, housed Treasures chief executive and torch-lit ghost tour of the dedicated museum district with in the Viking Triangle, by of Ireland’s Ancient East the 19th century church combination ticket for all the in what is a tenement house marketing executive, together Viking Triangle. The Triangle’s eleven national monuments. It creating a greater critical mass that at present lags behind Greyfriars which add greatly historic attractions within - will appeal to an audience with Waterford City and County remarkable collection of both will: of all-weather attractions that Ireland’s more favoured to the attractions of the Viking the Viking Triangle to include that would not normally visit a Council’s full time tourism officer below and above ground historic will appeal to a very broad tourist destinations in terms of Triangle. The main premise Reginald’s Tower, the Bishop’s • increase Waterford Treasures, museum. work very closely with Tourism buildings and its macabre tombs audience. international visitors. is to peel back and expose the Palace, the Medieval Museum, Three Museums in the Viking Ireland and frequently participate makes the area in and around the layers of history in Ireland’s the Mayors’ Treasury exhibition Triangle visitor numbers to • Inclusion of a strong education • Within the Viking Triangle this in their overseas marketing Museum of Time Part II an ideal oldest city and make its How will the Irish in City Hall, the Viking House 250,000 by 2019 element will ensure the new attraction will bring life initiatives. venue for such an event. 1100-year-old history come Experience and the Irish Museum • attract non-standard museum viability of the new Museum and vibrancy into Cathedral Museum of Time be We also work very closely to life by entertaining and of Time. Every Halloween night a torch-lit visitors eg social energisers in the off-season, ensuring its Square at the very heart of the sustainable? with the House of Waterford sustainability. Triangle and take advantage engaging storytelling. The joint ticketing regime will ghost tour would be preceded by • prolong visitor stay and spend Crystal in promoting the Viking a giant temporary light sculpture • The projected increase in of Waterford Council’s • The project exploits fully the Staffing help to increase dwell time in the • tell stories in better ways using Triangle and all the attractions created on the pavement in visitor numbers to all the partnership with a private fantastic assets recently gifted Viking Triangle bringing with it a latest technology The Irish Museum of Time will within it. Waterford Council Cathedral Square using lighted Viking Triangle attractions is concern in a new café tapas bar to the museum - a collection of much-needed economic boost to be part of the very successful has established a Destination pumpkins / turnips brought there • create employment and predicated on the continued beside the Almshouse which museum-quality Irish long case the city’s cafés, restaurants, shops Waterford Museum of Treasures, Waterford committee to promote by the participating audience. contribute to city centre success of t he Waterford opened in 2017. and carriage clocks together and hotels. Waterford Treasures a company limited by guarantee the city and county nationally and Using drone photography this regeneration Greenway to attract in excess • By animating Cathedral Square with gold and silver watches will always sell admission tickets and wholly owned by Waterford internationally with other private transient artistic feature has • raise Waterford profile as a of 250,000 visitors annually, as the Museum of Time Part II dating from 1690 to 1890. to individual attractions. City and County Council. It sector stakeholders. the potential to become an tourist destination, only Irish was achieved in 2017. The all- will help rectify the present The clocks and watches were will be managed by Waterford Marketing – working with Halloween international YouTube sensation city with a museum district weather Irish Museum of Time, disconnect between the manufactured all over Ireland’s Treasures staff and run on a Tourism Ireland thus helping to promote Ireland • The universal themes of the with its appeal to younger Triangle and the retail core by Ancient East. day-to-day basis by museum Halloween will be a major sub- The marketing of the museum throughout the globe. Museum – the story and visitors - Great Escapers connecting the Viking Triangle • The museum’s use of staff. The well-established greet theme of the attraction thus will be undertaken by Waterford science of Time and the quirky and Social Energisers - will with City Square Shopping innovative hologram and 3D volunteers known as Viking ensuring that the Irish origins of Treasures full-time Marketing story of the iconic Irish Wake complement the Greenway, Centre Waterford’s primary immersive technology together Triangle Ambassadors will assist this internationally-celebrated Executive. It will feature on the will have international appeal. making Waterford City and retail centre (and its large with the museum quality of the with orientating the visitor and event are fully understood and Waterford Treasures website • The theme has three aspects, underground carpark), thereby historic Irish timepieces and making sure that they are aware enjoyed. Halloween and the and be marketed via social media. historic, scientific and social by complementary Irish objects on of the many elements of the festivities associated with it has

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Waterford Council, Waterford - 36.11%. A decline of 6% was successful in attracting the vestments 1460s and his Treasures, House of Waterford experienced in our visitors from Great Escapers. Choristers’ Hall are in the Crystal, Waterford Port Authority Great Britain who made up 12.8% • With a dedicated children’s Medieval Museum and that and a number of specialist of our total visitors. section in the Irish Museum of James Rice’s Wine Vault retailers also operate the Cruise Time at Greyfriars the Great dated to 1440, the sword he Ship Co-Op which promotes both Escapers will find much to received from King Edward the City as a destination for cruise Engaging with the Social occupy and entertain all the IV of England and his Great ship visitors and attracts over Energisers family members. Parchment Book are also in the twenty cruise ships annually to Medieval Museum and his very • The quirky humorous macabre • The international appeal of the city. Time, its history, the science grisly cadaver tomb dated 1481 themes of Death and Time is in Christ Church Cathedral The Medieval Museum part of and the use of cutting- behind it in the past and in the the Waterford Treasures family future will make The Museum opposite the Almshouse, gives edge technology such as this attraction enormous appeal of attractions has consistently touchscreens, holograms and of Time a fun experience for been Tripadvisor No 1 Waterford all the family that requires no for the Culturally Curious. 3D Immersive technology will • The superb collection of Irish Visitor Attraction. The museum appeal to Social Energisers. It historical knowledge or indeed experience in both the Bishop’s interest. clocks and watches dating is planned in the 19th century from 1690 to 1890 which Palace and the Medieval Museum wake room to have the corpse have received satisfaction ratings will be displayed alongside unexpectedly rise up in the Engaging with the contemporary paintings, silver in the region of 94% from CIE coffin! International Coach Tours Culturally Curious and glassware will have a underlining the great appeal great appeal to the Culturally these attractions have for the Engaging with the Great • The two highly-atmospheric Curious. international visitor. buildings in which the Escapers attractions will be located, Since opening the visitor the 18th century church at attractions in the Viking Triangle • In order to encourage the Great Escapers and family groups Greyfriars and the Almshouse in 2011, our fee-paying visitor built by Dean John Collyn numbers have increased from in particular since opening in 2011 we have a policy of not and Mayor James Rice in the 33,000 to 101,000 in 2017. In 1460s, make both parts of 2017 35.3% of the visitors were charging for children who are accompanied by fee-paying the ttraction appealing to the Irish and for the first time since Culturally Curious. 2011, our North American visitors adults. This family-friendly initiative has been very • The fact that Dean Collyn’s outstripped our Irish visitors extraordinary cloth-of-gold

180111 Brochure.indd 38 15/01/2018 13:38:22 Connecting to Ireland’s how a house changed over the neighbouring Fat Angel These unique fun if somewhat Rationale for the Irish Museum of Time six centuries and alongside café / tapas bar. Bespoke macabre experiences will Ancient East that to explore customs and themed umbrellas, table complement the death/Irish- traditions of the Irish Wake and chairs will be set out in wake-themed adjoining visitor Waterford Council, Waterford - 36.11%. A decline of 6% was successful in attracting the vestments 1460s and his • This Project will create a and Halloween, we are creating the paved area in front of attraction. This Ice Cream Treasures, House of Waterford experienced in our visitors from Great Escapers. Choristers’ Hall are in the unique attraction that has a unique cultural attraction. the Almshouse where tea, Emporium will have a broad Crystal, Waterford Port Authority Great Britain who made up 12.8% Medieval Museum and that not been replicated anywhere • With a dedicated children’s coffee and soft drinks will appeal particularly for the Social and a number of specialist of our total visitors. James Rice’s Wine Vault else in Ireland north or south section in the Irish Museum of be served with a selection Energisers and the Great Escapers retailers also operate the Cruise dated to 1440, the sword he and forge a link with two of Time at Greyfriars the Great Broadening the of appropriately themed with young children - a segment Ship Co-Op which promotes both received from King Edward the great icons of Ireland the Escapers will find much to Experience ice creams – Devil’s Delight, with huge growth potential, the City as a destination for cruise Engaging with the Social IV of England and his Great Irish Wake and Halloween and occupy and entertain all the Lucifer’s Lollipops, Dracula’s thanks to the development of the ship visitors and attracts over Parchment Book are also in the with the great historic sites of Energisers family members. • It is planned to use the Tapas Dilemma, Speak of the Devil Waterford Greenway. twenty cruise ships annually to Medieval Museum and his very Ireland’s Ancient East. • The international appeal of Bar/Café adjoining the Special, Tombstone Trio etc. • The quirky humorous macabre • The fact that the collection of the city. Time, its history, the science grisly cadaver tomb dated 1481 Almshouse to develop evening themes of Death and Time clocks and watches represents The Medieval Museum part of behind it in the past and in the is in Christ Church Cathedral time entertainment featuring and the use of cutting- almost every county in Ireland the Waterford Treasures family future will make The Museum opposite the Almshouse, gives Irish and American Wakes. edge technology such as makes it easy to explore themes of attractions has consistently of Time a fun experience for this attraction enormous appeal • The Almshouse will be the touchscreens, holograms and that will help promote and been Tripadvisor No 1 Waterford all the family that requires no for the Culturally Curious. starting point of a new evening 3D Immersive technology will direct visitors to other parts of Visitor Attraction. The museum historical knowledge or indeed • The superb collection of Irish time experience – the Spirits of appeal to Social Energisers. It Ireland’s Ancient East. Many experience in both the Bishop’s interest. clocks and watches dating Waterford - an evening ghost is planned in the 19th century of the timepieces were made in Palace and the Medieval Museum from 1690 to 1890 which tour of the Viking Triangle. wake room to have the corpse small provincial towns as were have received satisfaction ratings will be displayed alongside • A chilling experience and unexpectedly rise up in the many items of superb Irish in the region of 94% from CIE Engaging with the contemporary paintings, silver some cold comfort at Cathedral coffin! silverware that we will display International Coach Tours Culturally Curious and glassware will have a Square – With the USA as the alongside the clocks. underlining the great appeal great appeal to the Culturally largest consumer of ice cream • The two highly-atmospheric these attractions have for the Engaging with the Great Curious. • The clocks and watches will be in the world and Ireland ranked buildings in which the international visitor. displayed in a manner that will fifth, it would be economically Escapers attractions will be located, highlight the history of high viable to enhance the visitor Since opening the visitor the 18th century church at • In order to encourage the Great level Irish craftsmanship not experience by facilitating the attractions in the Viking Triangle Greyfriars and the Almshouse Escapers and family groups just in the making of superb sale of ice cream in Cathedral in 2011, our fee-paying visitor built by Dean John Collyn in particular since opening in timepieces but also in the Square. Therefore as part of numbers have increased from and Mayor James Rice in the 2011 we have a policy of not making of silver and glass and the story of the Irish Wake 33,000 to 101,000 in 2017. In 1460s, make both parts of in the fine arts. 2017 35.3% of the visitors were charging for children who are and Halloween it is planned the ttraction appealing to the • By using the medieval Irish and for the first time since accompanied by fee-paying to animate the square by Culturally Curious. Almshouse in Cathedral Square 2011, our North American visitors adults. This family-friendly establishing an Ice Cream initiative has been very • The fact that Dean Collyn’s now a tenement, to explore Emporium in partnership with outstripped our Irish visitors extraordinary cloth-of-gold

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180111 Brochure.indd 38 15/01/2018 13:38:22 180111 Brochure.indd 39 15/01/2018 13:38:22 Financial projections Costings The conservative projected Part I The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars growth over three years of a Renovation of Building €100,000 minimum of 220,000 visitors per annum for all of the Viking 3D experience, touchscreen and hologram technology €160,000 Triangle attractions under the Fitout cost of exhibition €120,000 Waterford Treasures umbrella SUB-TOTAL: €380,000 including the new Museum of Time and the new Viking House Part II The Irish Museum of Time at the Almshouse Experience (opening April 2017) Renovation of Building €170,000 would bring in a minimum additional income of €420,000 3D experience, touchscreen and hologram technology €180,000 which will offset the additional Fitout cost of exhibition €80,000 staff and maintenance costs of SUB-TOTAL: €430,000 the new attractions. TOTAL: €810,000

Thank you for your time, we know time is important to you.

Charity Number CHY15865

180111 Brochure.indd 40 15/01/2018 13:38:22 Financial projections Costings Board of Directors Waterford Professor Willie Donnelly, Eoin Gill, Calmast, Waterford For further information please Treasures Museum President Waterford Institute of Institute of Technology contact: The conservative projected Part I The Irish Museum of Time at Greyfriars Desmond Miller, Chairman Technology Des Griffin, Chair, Waterford Eamonn McEneaney growth over three years of a Renovation of Building €100,000 Lord and Lady Magan Civic Trust Director Waterford Treasures minimum of 220,000 visitors Sean Power, Secretary per annum for all of the Viking 3D experience, touchscreen and hologram technology €160,000 Professor Roy Foster Gerry Halley, Solicitor, Silver Three Museums in the Viking Ann Cusack Triangle Triangle attractions under the Fitout cost of exhibition €120,000 Specialist (Waterford ) Waterford Treasures umbrella Councillor David Daniels The Bishop’s Palace SUB-TOTAL: €380,000 Museum of Time Fundraising Eamonn McEneaney, Director including the new Museum of Gerry Halley Waterford Museum of Treasures The Mall, Waterford, Ireland Time and the new Viking House Part II The Irish Museum of Time at the Almshouse Committee Lar Power, Director of Services Email: Experience (opening April 2017) Eamonn and Jim Noonan, Silver Renovation of Building €170,000 Economic Development & Deirdre Adams, Chairperson [email protected] would bring in a minimum Specialists (Limerick) Planning Marie Dennehy Phone: 00353872515080 additional income of €420,000 3D experience, touchscreen and hologram technology €180,000 Donnchadh Ó Ceallacháin, Keeper which will offset the additional Fitout cost of exhibition €80,000 Councillor Mary Roche Shane Lannen Waterford Museum of Treasures staff and maintenance costs of or SUB-TOTAL: €430,000 Des Whelan Dr Chantelle Macnamara Gráinne Pierse, Antiques the new attractions. Specialist and Collector TOTAL: €810,000 Sheila Mulligan Colman Curran Advisory Board Waterford Frances Shanahan Jim Power, Economist Horologist and Collector Treasures Museum Dr Michael Ryan, Archaeologist former Director Chester Beatty Email: [email protected] Gerry Halley, Chairman Museum of Time Consultative Library Dublin Phone: 00353862416284 Deirdre Adams Committee Rosemary Ryan, Keeper Colman Curran, Dr John Maiben Gilmartin Waterford Museum of Treasures Lawyer and Horologist Alice Grant Professor Salvador Ryan, St Elizabeth Clooney, Collector Dean Maria Jansson Patrick’s College Maynooth Deirdre Adams, Lecturer WIT Bishop William Lee Lynn Scarff, Director Science Mary Macnamara John Bowen, Engineer and Silver Gallery Dublin Specialist (Cork) Sean Ryan Donal Brazil, Accountant Waterford City and County Dr Eugene Broderick, Academic Council Museum of Time Patrons Françoise Collanges, Horologist Michael Walsh, Chief Executive Thank you for your time, we know time is important to you. Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor Oxford Teresa Crowley, Lar Power, Director of Services University Art Historian and Curator Economic Development & Charity Number CHY15865 Planning

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In 1783 in order to attract clock and watch makers from Geneva, a proposal was made to establish a new town in Waterford to be called New Geneva. Lord Ely enthusiastically endorsed the project and pledged a gift of land to help ensure its success. He stated ‘I wish to benefit the most enlightened people in the universe so that when I am called to leave this earth, I shall repose with the serenity worthy of a man who knows that in giving happiness he has raised a monument more durable than marble, shaped by the most able artist.’

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