Museum
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The Glasnevin Museum was opened in April of 2010 and is characterized as a museum of genealogy and heritage. The exhibits are designed to give you information about the various historical, political, and cultural figures buried within the cemetery, including the cemetery creator Daniel O’Connell. In addition to this the museum provides a detailed history of the cemetery since it's creation. Visitors are encouraged to look through the cemetery records for a small price and locate the graves of loved ones or anyone else whom they wish to find. The museum is designed to compliment the guided tour of the cemetery, in my opinion, it is best to visit the museum first as it provides a concise history of how the museum was created and the various problems it encountered such as cholera epidemics and body snatching that the guided tours can not always cover.
Cemetery
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Glasnevin offers daily guided tours of the cemetery. One of the most interesting aspects of Glasnevin is the meaning that visitors’ ascribe to the graves they visit, and this is most evident when looking at the guided tours. The graves gain their cultural significance by the way visitors interact with them. Especially since many buried in Glasnevin Cemetery fought against each other physically and politically during their lives, we can truly learn a lot about an individual's political views based on their behaviour during the walking tour. There are over 1.1 million people buried in Glasnevin each of whom have a story to tell, however it is the relationship that people have with their graves that will be investigated further in this website.