Irish Museum of Time to add exciting new extension

The Irish Museum of Time will be installing an exciting new exhibition gallery, set to open next year. 

The extension is aimed to enhance the museum, which is located at Greyfriars Church in the burgeoning Museum Quarter. The exhibition space will be worked on at the adjoining Central Hall over the next few months. 

The museum is feted as being home to the world's largest collection of finely crafted 19th-century Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks, which will be highlighted by the new space.

Member of the Board of Directors of Waterford Treasures Eamonn McEneaney said: “Our very generous sponsor and philanthropist Mr David Boles, co-founder of the Irish Museum of Time, has agreed to add two new AV presentations in the newly extended space. The first will chronicle the History of Timekeeping from the earliest times to the present, while the second presentation will examine the role of clocks and watches in works of art from the 16th century to the Napoleonic era."

Eamonn then spoke about the addition of an audio-visual theatre. 

"These will provide much-needed audio-visual theatre space thereby greatly enhancing the visitor experience and visitor dwell time in Waterford City."

He added: "Another museum presentation will see the installation of an AI visitor interface; this will be the first AI visitor interface in any museum in Ireland. This presentation will allow visitors to interrogate a hologram of an 18th-century Waterford clock and a watchmaker, who is working in his virtual workshop making a clock. 

"Visitors will be able to pose questions relating to the museum’s collection and to Irish horology in general and, thanks to the magic of AI, almost instantaneously receive answers to their questions.”