True world-class cities have one thing in common: a cascade of free or near-free things to see and do. Dublin is one of those cities, and the city’s tourist Office serves up these suggestions:
- Take a trip back in time, to about 7,000 BC or so, and marvel at the collection of all things Irish at the National Museum of Archeology. You’ll be finding it on Kildare Street.
- Jump ahead a few millennia to the present and see the collages, collections and constructions the Irish Museum of Modern Art has to offer. Exhibitions run throughout the year.
- Burrow further into Ireland’s romantic, rich history through the lenses of photographers both overlooked and acclaimed. The National Photographic Archive chronicles the triumph, tragedy and wit of the Emerald Isle as perhaps no other place on earth. This archive houses over 600,000 photos, many of them displayed via exhibition.
- Jump ahead once more, to Dublin’s Science Gallery. The Tourist Board labels this a first-of-its-kind venue “where art and science collide.” The idea here is to identify the connections between art and science and then create consciousness-shaping “dynamic intersections” between the two of them.
- Stroll leisurely through the ground of 400-year-old Trinity College and hear the whispers of Irish genius across the generations. The Georgian architecture is stunning, the ambiance amazing. You can reach out – quite literally – and touch the history.
- Bike about Dublin for free – at least for the first half hour on a bicycle from Dublinbikes. There are some 450 of them scattered among 40 locations throughout this historic city. The idea is to get folks out of their cars and into a more ecologically-attuned mode of transport.
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