Group behind controversial children's museum pledges to raise €25m for €70m project

A visualisation of the proposed but as yet unrealised national children’s science centre. Picture: 3ddesignbureau.com

The group behind a long-standing push to build a State-owned children’s science museum in Dublin says it plans to raise €25m to contribute to the construction of the controversial €70m-budgeted project.

Irish Children’s Museum Limited chief executive Barbara Galavan will tell the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday that the project in question is a “critically important” one for the country.