Der geplante Standort des National Children’s Science Center „macht keinen Sinn“, sagt Explorium-Chef
https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2026/02/14/planned-location-of-national-childrens-science-centre-doesnt-make-any-sense-says-explorium-boss/
Von Banania2020
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He would say that, wouldn’t he?
Right, a national museum in the city centre, that would be ridiculous…
It does seem a stupid thing to spunk more money on. State not capable of doing these things well. Mad to think some people think the state spending will solve the housing crisis 😂
> Explorium’s managing director Charlie Kelly argued that the city-centre location for the NCSC did not make sense, questioning where buses for school tours would park. He said Explorium was “on the edge of the M50” with space for parking buses. “So I think we’d be a much more preferable solution.”
Counter argument: it’s on the edge of the M50, a famously horrendous stretch of road to be stuck on when it’s not moving. Kelly’s comments read like anxiety that faced with the M50 or the city centre (where all the other national museums are), his audience will choose the city.
We keep meaning to go to the Explorium but the prospect of travelling all the way down the M50 softens my cough every time
No-one is coming out of this looking good.
Government – unable to commit a relatively small amount of money for something most other international cities have. Especially in a country that depends so heavily on FDI from STEM companies.
OPW – being incompetent is par for the course so no surprise that they let themselves be boxed in by signing a contract like this. Pretending that it’s flood defences or science museum is unbelievably petty.
ICML – won’t even consider doing anything with Explorium because it would undermine their own non-existent science museum. Making up fantasy reasons like “Ireland could have a niche with the arts-science interface”. is just the cherry on top.
To be fair to Explorium, while the government have dithered endlessly, they went ahead and used their own money to open a science centre. And when Covid ruined that, they put more money in and re-opened it.
We don’t need this. Nobody asked for this. Just bring back Trinity’s Science Gallery.
And so car-brained – ‘but where will the school tour coaches park?’ On the rare occasions when my kid’s school does take them somewhere, they walk or take a normal bus. It’s not hard – and no need to be way out in a barely-accessible suburb.
This is a PR push from Explorium. I have been involved with projects before where PR like this gets published in the Irish Times.
A city center is a perfectly good location for a national museum, see: Ireland, every other country in the world.
„existing privately-owned science centre.“
„He said an offer to potentially use Explorium’s [Sandyford](https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sandyford/) facility as the location for the new NCSC remained on the table,“
Oh gee I wonder why they object.
The Big Idea, Irvine. Was a science centre located in Aryshire, Scotland on the former Nobel Explosives site. The Big Idea was planned in 2000 by the Millennium Commission, to celebrate the history of inventors and their inventions. It closed in 2003 after falling visitor numbers and has laid derelict ever since.
Doesn’t make sense (if it makes sense at all)
anywhere other than the city centre. by his logic we’d move the national gallery to a site on the M50