SNIPPET: FYI - The handsome restored Granary building on Merchant's Quay in Waterford is home to the tourist office, a theatre, exhibition space, a lively restaurant and, particularly, the wonderful Waterford Museum of Treasures. Over 100,000 people have visited here, since the Museum first opened in 1999, to learn about Waterford city's thousand years of history. Since then, Treasures has won several awards and last year was nominated by Rough Guide to Ireland as the 12th of the Top 50 Delights of Ireland - no mean recommendation. All ages will enjoy learning about those who contributed to the making of Waterford. There are exciting visual displays with specially designed audio guides for both children and adults. Here you will find Viking jewellery and gaming boards; the only complete medieval bow in these islands and arrow-heads from the Anglo-Norman siege of 1170, the four-metre long Great Charter Roll of 1372 which shows the earliest picture of an Irish city. Treasures also has the finest complete set of Royal Charters granted to the city over 600 years from 1215-1815. As you might expect, a wonderful collection of 18th and 19th century Waterford Glass is also on show here, while other displays recall the connections between Napoleon BONAPARTE and the local WYSE family; one of the Irish heroes of the American Civil War, Thomas Francis MEAGHER, and the important links between Newfoundland and Waterford fishermen. Directions: in the city centre on Merchant's Quay, signposted. More info: www.waterfordtreasures.com