The Glasnevin Cemetery visitor centre will share the history of the final resting place for over one million people.
Glasnevin Cemetery is almost 180 years old and the new visitor centre and museum will tell stories from generations of gravediggers and body snatchers and provide the records of every person buried in the cemetery.
It's the final resting place of more than a million people.
Mark Leslie, creative director at Glasnevin says the museum will provide access to meticulous records of every person buried there. The records paint a picture of who they were, who they were married to, what they died of and where they lived.
It's like a goldmine for historians.
The new museum is one part of the Glasvevin Cemetery ten year restoration programme and tourism drive. Following years of closure, Daniel O'Connell's crypt is due to be reopened along with the round tower, known as O'Connell Tower, which marks his grave.
John Green, chairman of the Glasnevin Trust, says that the new museum will not distract from the day to day business of the graveyard to provide a final resting place for Dubliners.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 March 2010. The reporter is Samantha Libreri.
