According to the International Council of Museums,
“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment."
Thus it is interesting to look at how the "tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment" can be communicated through acoustics alone. As the location of our given building, Liberty Hall, is one of historic importance to Irish History, the heritage that might be communicated here is easy to determine. Yet how does one tell the history of an island with only architectural acoustics. The first hint at this may come from the History itself, some of which has come up before in this study.
Stone Age to Bronze Age (10,500 BC–600 BC) - Passage tombs and megalithic art
Iron Age (600 BC–400 AD) - Wattle and Daub, and Rathcroghan
Early Christian Ireland (400–800) - Round Tower , Clochán , Gallarus Oratory
Early medieval and Viking era (800–1166) - Castles with boat like ceilngs and churches
Norman Ireland (1168–1535) Barrow vaulted corridors in Dublin Castle and Motte and Bailey castles
Early modern Ireland (1536–1691)
Protestant ascendancy (1691–1801)
Union with Great Britain (1801–1912) Sparsity / Irishness renewal
Home Rule, Easter Rising and War of Independence (1912–1922) - Chaotic Spacs
Free State and Republic (1922–recent modern) - Tenements - flats
Current Ireland ?
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