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The Guinness Museum (now known as the Guinness Storehouse) is based in the original fermentation plant on the St James's Gate site in Dublin, Ireland. The building in which the exhibition is based was a working building for Guinness as recently as 1988, although the exhibition itself is far more recent than this, having been revamped within the last year.
As you walk in to the exhibition the first exhibit on display is the original lease signed by Arthur Guinness in 1759 for the site on which the exhibition stands. The original lease for the site is for 9,000 years, but I'll not spoil the surprise and let you visit the museum for yourself in order to find out why that was!
The exhibition itself consists of displays on a number of different floors giving details of the ingredients and processes used in brewing Guinness, the people involved and various titbits of history. The displays are striking and well put together and involve video, sounds, smells (some of the displays give off smells!) and original objects used in the production of Guinness - including a display built inside a huge storage vat (almost a million pints!) which you can go inside and walk around. An excellent soundtrack of atmospheric (but not distracting) music follows you around the exhibition from concealed speakers - the designers have obviously made every effort to make it a magical place!
There are 7 floors to the Guinness exhibition connected by stairs and lifts - before you reach the top "the Gravity Bar" which is a relaxed circular bar at the top of the building - high above Dublin. The Gravity Bar has floor to Ceiling windows and offers an excellent view of the whole of Dublin, as far as Dublin mountains. Here you are served what is regarded by many as the best pint of Guinness in the World - and I would certainly agree - this is complimentary - included in the £8 IEP ticket price.
The whole exhibition is of course run and organised by Guinness, who are a commercial concern - however the history is faithfully told, and you do feel you get really good value for money from the day out.
If you go to Dublin, you're more than likely to sample some Great Guinness: find out where it's made!
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