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Cobh Heritage Centre

F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and Museums

Definition

Irish port museum focused on emigration shipping.

An Irish heritage center in Cobh (formerly Queenstown), County Cork, housed in the restored Victorian railway station and telling the story of emigration through the port. Cobh was the last port of call for the RMS Titanic on 11 April 1912 and a major departure point for the roughly 2.5 million people who emigrated from Ireland through it. The Queenstown Story exhibition covers famine emigration, convict transportation, and transatlantic liner traffic.

Source: Cobh Heritage Centre (The Queenstown Story), Cobh, County Cork, Ireland; Titanic's final port of call, 11 April 1912.