Your Tenement Memories: Our new making a museum film

Making a Museum is our series of short films that take a look at some of the key aspects of how we made our museum so we can share with you how we tell stories, make connections and uncover history.

In this Making a Museum film, Your Tenement Memories, we look at the process of how we capture the oral histories and memories of the people who lived in Henrietta street and tenement Dublin.

Your Tenement Memories is a series of ongoing conversations with people across the city that gathers memories of tenement life in Dublin for 14 Henrietta Street. By listening and talking with visitors, historians, local residents and their families and through the knowledge of others, the museum continues to discover new stories, gathering memories and adding to the museum’s collection and visitor experience.

This film adds to the Making a Museum collection by giving the perspective of a wide range of people who are involved in the programme including our Social Historian, Tour Guides, Engagement Coordinators, programme participants and a former resident. It conveys the importance of this programme to the museum, our people first approach and how the oral histories are an integral part of the museum’s collection.

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You can also learn more about the Your Tenement Memories programme and 14 Henrietta Street in the Spring-Summer 2025 edition of the CAMOC Review.

CAMOC is the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities. It helps city museums build and care for their collections, and share them in ways that reflect a city's identity and future.

This new CAMOC Review brings to you articles from London, Dublin, Paris, Rome, Vancouver, Miami and beyond. The main subjects in this issue are oral history in city museums and education programs dedicated to different audiences, from wellbeing and care practices in museums to initiatives in sustainability and climate change.

Our Head of Engagement, Laura Keogh has contributed an article to this international publication that discusses 14 Henrietta street as a social history museum that not only tells the history of the city over 300 years but also encourages ongoing conversations and builds relationships with the people of Dublin.