Future Plans

The policy of the Armagh Observatory is to preserve and progressively restore the historic instruments, buildings and telescopes for future generations, and where possible make them available for display to visitors and the general public.

In future years, subject to available funding, the Observatory plans to:

• construct a new archive and historic instrument repository including an extension of the Library and Library Annex;

• construct a reception and exhibition area to present the current and previous astronomical work at the Observatory;

• upgrade the grounds and Astropark and reinstate the area immediately around the Observatory to its original eighteenth-century design.