Cork Public Museum, Fitzgerald's Park
The Cork Public Museum is home to a permanent Cork collection that in June 2025 installed a permanent display feature on Rory Gallagher with instruments and other items from his life touring around the world.
The original museum building is a converted Georgian house within Cork's Fitzgerald Park. Built in 1845 by the Beamish brewing family, the house and gardens were purchased by Cork Corporation to become part of the 18-hectare (44-acre) site of the 1902 Cork International Exhibition.
During the 1902 exhibition (a type of "world's fair"), the house hosted visiting dignitaries and royalty such as Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Following the exhibition, much of the site and gardens were repurposed as a public park, and in 1910, the house was reopened as a museum.
Part-used as a local authority air-raid protection office and shelter, the museum partially closed during "The Emergency" of World War 2 and reopened in 1945. It was managed by University College Cork until the 1960s, when museum administration reverted to the city council.
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