Background
Formerly, the museum was situated on Granby Row, but this building demolished to make way for a hotel. In the past, it was a former site to prayer rooms converted into a cinema and then into a waxworks (now being a hotel after its closure).
The museum was previously owned by Donie Cassidy, a Senator and former TD. It is now owned by Music Recording entrepreneur, Patrick Dunning, owner of Grouse Lodge Studios. It suffered serious neglect from the mid-1980s, with low visitor numbers, and very few waxworks being added, except those of new Presidents of Ireland and Taoiseach.
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