Museum celebrates topping most visited list

CORK’S public museum was the most visited local authority museum in the country last year.

The Fitzgerald Park facility, which opened in 1910 and introduced limited weekend opening for the first time last year, was visited by 55,000 people — more than any of the country’s other 12 local authority museums.

Figures released yesterday showed that it pipped Clare Museum in Ennis, which was visited by 39,500 people, Kerry Museum with 35,000 visitors and Waterford Museum with 27,000 visitors.