Epic, the Irish Emigration museum based in Dublin’s docklands, has had a huge visitor jump, new figures reveal.

The museum is situated in CHQ building, now expects to pass a run rate of 120,000 visitors by the autumn, up from an annual run rate of 50,000 in 2016.

“We are into our first full summer season and the numbers are looking very positive. Tourism in the city is doing well and we are starting to get our share of the pie….It is really taking off,” says Epic’s sales and marketing director, Aileesh Carew.

Epic is the world’s first fully-digitised museum. Over €4m was invested in technology to tell the story of 900 years of Ireland’s emigration and global influence. The museum aims to cater for 750,000 visitors annually by 2020, which would make it Dublin’s third-most visited tourist attraction after the Guinness Storehouse and the Book of Kells at Trinity College.