Major New Lusitania Museum Planned for Old Head of Kinsale
5th March 2021
New museum site - The Old Head of Kinsale Napoleonic Tower and Memorial Garden in the foreground
The community group at the renowned South Coast landmark, the Old Head of Kinsale, plans to build a major, new Lusitania Museum to replace the present small museum at the site, where they have also constructed a memorial garden.
The memorial committee is also the owners of the Lusitania wreck. Still, their concentration is on creating a new museum, to mark fully a huge part of Irish maritime history is, the Secretary of the committee told Afloat. Every sailor who passes on the South Coast knows the Old Head very well.
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