The Cobh Heritage Centre is a

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located in

Cobh Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of around 13,000 inhabitants, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's ...

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

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. It is attached to

Cobh railway station Cobh railway station serves the town of Cobh, County Cork. It is located in a red brick building adjacent to the town's Cobh Heritage Centre. It is the terminus of the on Cork-Cobh section of the Cork Suburban Rail line. Travel to Glounthau ...

. The "Queenstown Experience", located at the centre, has mostly permanent exhibitions of Irish history. It has held exhibits on life in Ireland through the 18th and 19th centuries, mass emigration, the Great Famine, on

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to Australia, and on the sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania''. It also has an exhibition on the history of the RMS ''Titanic'', whose last port of call before it sank was Cobh (then Queenstown). The centre is a tourist destination, including with visitors from

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s, which often dock in Cobh. The centre has two onsite gift shops and a café.

References

External links

Cobh Heritage Centre Official website
Cobh Heritage Centre inside a ship

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