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The Natural History Museum will re-open to the public tomorrow almost three years after the collapse of a stone staircase forced its closure.

The museum on Dublin’s Merrion Street, affectionately known as the “dead zoo” was formally opened today by Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin, in what was her first official engagement at a national museum since her appointment.