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THE HERITAGE COUNCIL is hosting workshop this week to teach communities how to create a pop-up museum in vacant spaces to inject life back into their towns and draw in the tourists.
Liam Mannix, who is a project manager at the council, told TheJournal.ie that “every town in the country, to a greater or lesser extent, has problems with these vacant spaces”.
“Having a pop-up museum fulfills a lot of roles – it hopefully bring life back into a town, spruces up the area and allows community groups to do something stable and sustainable,” he said. “You can spend maybe five or ten grand over a summer and the fact that it’s temporary is good because it’s exciting and you can do something different next year so it doesn’t become tired.”
Mannix commented that smaller towns with low populations often do not have a tourism office and a pop-up museum can serve as a “reception area” for tourists during the summer months.
This is not the first time people have been encouraged to make better use of vacant properties with Dublin City Council asking owners to let others use them for art installations and creative events last year.
Creating a pop-up museum can empower communities, Mannix explained, particularly for those who have lost their jobs.
At the course itself next week we have a fair few archaeologists and they’ve taken an unbelievable hit – over 80 per cent of them lost their jobs. Their core skill was excavation so we’re trying to expand on this, allowing them to do heritage interpretation, expand their skills base.
“People in communities have a lot of goodwill but not necessarily the training to do something like this so we give them the training and hopefully a small bit of funding too,” he said.
“It’s always a better result when communities do it themselves, they know what’s important in the town and what’s interesting and what makes it unique.”
The workshop will take place on 3 and 4 December in Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny and more details can be found on the Heritage Council website.
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The Healy Rae’s are a national embarrassment.
@carol mullen: Why ? Because they get the job done ? I’m not from the constituency they’re from so they probably won’t do much for me,but why do the people of Kerry keep voting for them
@carol mullen: Only to those whose heads are too posh to push. They respond to their constituents concerns and deliver unlike the Social Democrats and Labour party who run to the hills In case they be held accountable in fairness to the Greens at least they took their place they’ve taken their beating which was unfair given they stepped up and influenced government policy.
@Paul Harte: They claim they get everything done but it is not them at all.
@Gary Kearney: So who gets it done. I understand that they don’t physically go out and do it themselves, but who is getting it done so. If more TDs worked for the constituents like these 2 and just interested in being in photos and actually did what the voters need and want, we’d be a lot better off. Yes, they are well paid for it, but are they getting anything more than the useless TDs who do nothing other than look after themselves.
If there is 1euro in agreement for the people of Kerry, there is another one in it for Healy-Rae’s
Milking the country they are.
Make kilgarvan great again
They play the oldest game in the book. All politics is local and blame it on anybody else, particularly Dublin. Works like a dream.
They complain about schemes and policies the government run and yet make millions out of them.
We can’t laugh at trump when we have e the Healy raes in politics here
Could they be any worse than Mehole and Simson
@Paul Harte: Thankfully our voters rejected being ruled by the Dark rooms of Belfast and those living in a foreign country.
Healy Raes and Mattie Mcgraw are among the few politicians that actually care about doing the job they elected for instead of rattling on about other countries business.
@gregory pym: And Michael Collins isn’t to bad either and the guy in Limerick who’s in with Michael, his name escapes me, is he Donaghue or something like that 0
so the healy raes and mucheal lowery will decide who our next government will be, we’ll its always great to have friends in low places Michael and Simon
These two should not be allowed near politics. They are a national disgrace
In fairness, he cannot say anything else now can he!
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