Kilkenny’s newest tourist attraction is set to open it’s doors to the public in just seven days time.
After yesterday’s monthly meeting of the council, the keys to the Medieval Mile museum were officially handed over to Kilkenny Civic Trust who will be running it.
Local documents and artefacts including tombs, stone carvings and even replica High Crosses will all be on display there.
Grace Fegan is the Manager and Curator of the museum, she told KCLR News that they hope to have some of the items found during excavations on display before the end of the year. That includes the 13th century bodies discovered on the site.
Apart from next Tuesday and the first Saturday in March, the museum will be charging for visitors to enter.
Meanwhile Sinn Fein Councillor David Kennedy has proposed that another member of the council, Malcolm Noonan be added to the board of the civic trust.
As it stands, the Council CEO Collette Byrne and two councillors David Fitzgerald and Andrew McGuinness will be part of the group that looks after the running of the museum.
