Museum focuses on 14 Henrietta Street, a Dublin building whose three-century history moves from Georgian residence to tenement housing. Photographer Dragana Jurišić and poet Paula Meehan treat this single address as more than an architectural subject: it becomes a compact record of changing domestic life, social structures, and the wider history of housing in Ireland.
The book approaches the building through photography, poetry, memory, and material traces. Walls, floors, rooms, light, and surviving objects are read as evidence of lives that formal histories may leave unrecorded. Jurišić’s attention is suggestive rather than merely descriptive; her image of the walls as “secret maps” indicates a practice concerned with what a place can imply, conceal, and call back into memory.
Meehan’s poetic contribution gives the project a second register, extending the photographs beyond observation toward emotional and historical resonance. The collaboration allows Museum to move between the physical character of a house and the experiences embedded within it, while keeping its focus on the particularities of one site. That concentration is one of the book’s distinctive strengths: Dublin’s changing social landscape is approached through rooms and surfaces rather than through detached overview.
For a serious photobook collection, Museum deserves attention as a concise example of documentary practice widened by literary collaboration. Published by RRB PhotoBooks in 2019 as a 68-page first edition paperback, it has a clear formal and historical premise: to let a building speak through its architecture, former inhabitants, and the continuing pressures surrounding urban housing.