EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

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Entrance to the museum, 2018

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is the national Irish Migration Museum in Dublin in the CHQ Building .

The CHQ Building is one of the last remaining warehouses in Dublin's Docklands. Neville Isdell founded the museum in 2016 after serving as a director at Coca-Cola. His own migration experience in different countries gave him the idea. The museum explains why 10 million people left Ireland and how they influenced and shaped the world. In 2018 the museum was voted Europe's leading tourist attraction.

Web links

Commons : EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EPIC homepage . Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  2. ^ Fiona Audley: Museum dedicated to the experience of Irish emigration vies for top tourism award . Irish Post, September 30, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 57.4 "  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 52.4"  W.