| Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine | |
| Coordinates: | 53.3422°N -6.2531°W |
| Alternate Names: | Moyne Institute |
| Location City: | Dublin |
| Groundbreaking Date: | 1950 |
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| Opened Date: | 1953 |
| Renovation Date: | 1963,1981,2012 |
| Destruction Date: | --> |
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| Architect: | Desmond FitzGerald |
The Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine is a medical research institute within Trinity College Dublin.[1]
The institute's building, at the Nassau Street and Lincoln Place end of the TCD campus, was designed by Desmond FitzGerald.[1] The construction was funded by Grania Guinness in memory of her father, Walter Guinness.[1] The foundation stone was laid in 1950 and the building was opened in 1953.[1] [2]
The building has a copper roof and the floor inside the main entrance is made of white Sicilian marble as are the staircases.[2] There is a time capsule in the building, containing malting barley, freeze-dried bacteria and a vial of penicillin.[2]
In 1963 a two-floor extension was added to the south wing for the Department of Social Medicine, which later moved to St. James's Hospital in 1973.[2] A Similar extension was added to the north wing in 1981 and the laboratories were renovated in 2012.[2]