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Date Posted: Fri, Jan 26 2007, 19:57:54 PST
Author: Civil Rights Veterans
Subject: Museum of Free Derry Opens
In reply to: IA-PL warmly welcome new anti-PSNI mobilisation 's message, ""We're the mainstream republicans now"" on Fri, Jan 26 2007, 15:10:26 PST

MUSEUM OF FREE DERRY OPENS

Yesterday marked the official opening of The Museum of Free Derry, an event attracting a wide spectrum of guests including Derry’s Mayor Helen Quigley, ex-Guantanamo Bay Internee Moazzam Begg and acclaimed lawyer Gareth Pierce.

Located at Glenfada Park in the heart of the Bog side, the Museum of Free Derry has quickly established itself as a world-class exhibition space boasting a vast archive focusing on the civil rights period of the 1960’s the Free Derry era, the early days of the Troubles and, of course, Bloody Sunday.

More than 10,000 people visited the temporary Bloody Sunday exhibition at Glenfada Park last year.
The ‘Journal’ spoke to Colm Barton and Adrian Kerr, members of the Bloody Sunday Trust which is responsible for Derry’s newest museum.

Mr Kerr said: “This is the first stage of the permanent exhibition, detailing the background history of the bog, how it developed right up to partition. The more major part of the storyline, which would be the Stormont regime, it’s impact on the Bog and other areas in the Northland then the birth of the civil rights movement, a lot of which occurred here in Derry.”

Mr. Kerr revealed that the majority of the museum’s artefacts had been donated: “Virtually everything we have on display has been donated by the local population, so it’s effectively a community story told from their point of view and using their possessions,” he said.
“We now have an archive of around 25,000 items. Without the support of the community to see this project finished, we never could have done it.”

Colm Barton added: “Part of the thinking behind the museum and telling the story is that so many areas like the Bog side and their histories are lost. We want to capture the history of the people in a way that the people themselves accept. This is our history and we are very keen that all the archive material be preserved for future generations,” he said.

The museum opens to the public today (Friday the 26th January 2007) and will be open throughout the Bloody Sunday anniversary weekend.
Opening hours are 9.30am until 4.30pm, Monday to Friday, with extended opening days planned during the summer months.

Admission fees will be Ł3 or Ł1.50. Entrance to the museum will be free next week.

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