{"id":4,"date":"2016-11-17T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:45:39","slug":"museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4\" class=\"elementor elementor-4\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cad03f8 e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-repeater-item-default_padding elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6cad03f8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ang_container_spacing_size&quot;:&quot;default_padding&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c2b744c elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c2b744c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Monaghan County Museum is located in the state-of-the-art Peace Campus in Monaghan Town, and offers a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events that bring the County\u2019s rich history to life.<\/p><p>Over the past 50 years, the Museum has amassed an impressive collection of over 50,000 artefacts of local and national significance.<\/p><p>The Peace Campus is a safe space where everyone is welcome. The Museum\u2019s collection is a physical expression of that experience over thousands of years. This area has been a borderland for millennia. A place where people from different cultures have met and found a way to live together, to grow, to learn and to thrive. We embrace that ideal in the museum and we strive to tell that story to as wide an audience as possible and in doing so deepen the appreciation of our shared heritage, our shared story.<\/p><p>Monaghan County Museum is free to visit.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c744b22 e-grid e-con-boxed elementor-repeater-item-default_padding elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c744b22\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ang_container_spacing_size&quot;:&quot;default_padding&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7817960 columborder elementor-position-top elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"7817960\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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