Emil Milewski

PPS 2669589Q

Irish Cultural and heritage

Glasnevin cemetery

Date of visit: 10 December 2013

EXTERNAL

Relationship to surrounding area

The Glasnevin Cenetery is the largest

cemetery in Ireland, situated on Finglas

Road in Dublin. It is estimated that there are about 1,200,000 burials of several

denominations and nationalities in it. The Glasnevin cemetery is situated beside busy

street with large park just beside. It’s no buildings just beside

Sign-posting

I didn’t see any sign-posting on the way

Car parking

Car park is not very big and I thing that in busy day might be problem with left a car

or bus

SITE

Has it been restored

An on-going Restoration programme began in 2007

with the aim of restoring the great necropolis of The

Glasnevin Cemetery to the pristine glory of the early

1900s. Estimated to take 10 years, the completion

date is due in time for the 2016 Easter Rising centenary celebrations.This programme

spearheaded by Glasnevin Trust, is funded by the National Development Plan (NDP)

through the Office of Public Works (OPW).

Quality of conservation/restoration

I think quality of conservation stands on very high level

and museum exposition as well. Whole place looks

professionally manage.

Is it architecturally designed?

The Glasnevin Cemetery is the largest cemetery in

Ireland. First opened in 1832 to establish a place where

people of all religions could bury their dead with dignity, the cemetery has grown to

become a national monument and vital part of the Irish Heritage story.

What is its relationship to other buildings or general environment?

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Beside The Glasnevin Cemetery are no other buildings.

situated just beside is large recreation park and forest from

other

What is historical/ heritage/ cultural significance site?

The Glasnevin Cemetery has historical purpose. Inside the

museum is very Professional touch screen presentation with

most import ant peoples and events in Irish history. The

exhibitions on view seek to show the social, historical,

political and artistic development of modern Ireland through

the lives of the generations buried in Ireland’s Necropolis.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Reception/entrance area

Receptions look very nice. There is shop with many items,

books, booklets. I found very few free leaflets.

Pricing (adult, student, groups)

Tour cost €8

Internal sign-posting

There was few information sigs with parts of cemetery. There were also route signs for

easier find grave you look for.

Access for mobility impaired/wheelchair user

Museum is friendly for wheelchair users; there is an elevator,

special toilets and signs. Cemetery has route path.

Health & safety

Cemetery is fully restored and safety for visitors

Visitor flow

There are a large number of tourists from all over the world

FACILITIES

Toilets

Toilets are inside museum building

Café, restaurant, museum shop

There is large museum with historical presentation

and large restaurant in this same building

Craftshop/bookshop

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Just beside reception is large shop with items books and

booklets

Additional amenities

Multimedia presentation shows history of Irish most

important peoples, most important event and many others. It

is also showing were exactly they are buried. Presentation contains 8 connected

touchscrens witch works together and few other individual.

INTERPRETATION

Range of interetative literature (booklets, guidebook, maps)

There were many books, booklets, maps and items from very cheap to very expensive

Exhibition (visuals, displays, story boards, models, artifacts)

There was interactive presentation, computers, and artifacts.

Interesting thing was “wall of memory” where all buried

people’s names was display.

Sound and lighting

In the ground floor was exhibition with history of the place in

Halloween style with light, skeletons and models of XIX century cemetery workers.

Tour guide (quality of presentation, knowledge)

Our tour guide give very good presentation in very interesting

way. Quality of presentation was very high. Tour with see

museum takes about 2h

Audio-visual display (seating capacity, slides, DVD)

There is no movie or slide presentation, but touch screens are even more original and

interesting way shows place history and importance.

Languages

English and Irish

MARKETING

Website

The Glasnevin cemetery has his own website: http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/

Market mix (local, national, international)

There is international market

Promotions and special events

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There are special events at least once a month. Information about them is easy to find

on website

MANAGEMENT PROFILE

Is it a public or private facility?

Glasnevin cemetery is public facility

How many people are employed? (full-time, part-time)

87 full time

Does the enterprise have a commercial or heritage purpose

Glasnevin cemetery has commercial (selling grave places) and

heritage purpose.

BIBLOGRAPHY

http://www.glasnevintrust.ie

http://www.getyourguide.com

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/Dublin/

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