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Armagh County Museum

Armagh, Northern Ireland, Ireland
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About Armagh County Museum

The Armagh County Museum is a museum in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Located on the brink of the tree-covered Mall within the centre of Armagh city, the museum is the oldest County Museum in Ireland and changed into officially opened in 1937. The constructing was originally established as Charlemont Place National School and the architect may were Francis Johnston's student, William Murray. The college became not a success and the trustees transferred the lease to Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society in 1856.

They utilised the premises as their studying room, library, lecture corridor and museum. It changed into their museum that fashioned the foundation of what could emerge as Armagh County Museum’s collection. They hired architect Edward Gardner to convert the one room indoors into floor ground rooms and a wide balcony housing the museum above. The Society and museum increased at some point of the latter half of the nineteenth century and by means of 1888 it can boast 275 members paying an annual subscription of 5 shillings each.

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