14 Henrietta Street: Inner city heritage
Dublin’s museum of tenement life at 14 Henrietta Street tells the story of 300 years of occupation in this historic building in Dublin’s north inner city: from being the residence of a single family in the eighteenth century to providing a home for over 100 people by the twentieth century. A return to ‘former glory’ was never going to be the target here - instead the conservation approach was to preserve the tenements’ interior surfaces with all their wear and tear, while the interpretation draws on oral history and interviews with former residents. The front room at street level has been furnished as it was in the 1960s, the walls covered with a wallpaper and border reproduced from fragments found in the room. An ‘archaeology wall’ in one corner preserves the original fragments of several generations of wallpapers.
“Making Mrs Dowlings Flat” a short video about recreating the interiors of the museum.
A short video about 14 Henrietta Street, the Tenement Museum