Musée d'Histoire
Athy Heritage Centre-Museum
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Ray
December 28, 2019
Athy is a designated HERITAGE TOWN OF IRELAND and the Athy Heritage Centre-Museum focuses on the history of Athy and the surrounding area. Located in the former 18th century Market House (now Athy Town Hall), Athy Heritage Centre-Museum brings the history of Athy to life, from its Anglo Norman foundation, through the 1903 Gordon Bennett Race, to Athy Men and World War 1 and the story of local Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. Athy Heritage Centre-Museum has the only permanent exhibition anywhere devoted to Shackleton. Its highlights include an original sledge and harness from one of his Antartic expeditions, a 15 foot model of Shackleton's ship 'Endurance' and an audio visual display featuring original film footage of his 1914-1916 expedition. The Heritage Centre hosts an annual Ernest Shackleton Autumn School over the October bank holiday weekend.
Athy is a designated HERITAGE TOWN OF IRELAND and the Athy Heritage Centre-Museum focuses on the history of Athy and the surrounding area. Located in the former 18th century Market House (now Athy Town Hall), Athy Heritage Centre-Museum brings the history of Athy to life, from its Anglo Norman fou…
Andrew & Antoinette
August 9, 2018
Find out all about Ernerst Shackletown, Antarctic explorer know for his exceptional leadership.
Elizabeth
September 30, 2019
The Athy museum has a fabulous display of Ernest Shackleton Athy born world explorer
Marion
July 17, 2017
Shackleton Autumn Events take place end of October yearly covering many lectures on the Ernest Shackleton Voyages to the Antarctic Circle
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Athy, County Kildare
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