a previous exhibition entitled Road to Independence in Kildare Street from 1991 to 2005. It was removed from display in 2005, in line with the museum's policy on the display of human remains due to the presence of brain matter and blood inside the hat as well as conservation issues with the long-term display. The coat that Collins was wearing the day he died is still on display in the museum. Further exhibition galleries dedicated to Irish military history have been created, many commemorating the centenaries of World War I, the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War. One exhibition is dedicated to the Royal Dublin and Royal Munster Fusiliers who fought at Gallipoli in 1915, while a later gallery opened in 2017 documents the Irish who fought at Messines, the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) Divisions. Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising This exhibition on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising was opened to coincide with the centenary of the events in 2016. It draws on the museum's Easter Week Collection, a collection of over 15,000 objects relating to the events of the Rising and the period immediately after. It was opened to the public on 3 March 2016 by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. The exhibition opened in 2016 was the museum's eighth exhibition on the subject of the Easter Rising, and featured a number of objects which had not been put on public display before. The current exhibition is laid out over 10 zones, which track the events of the Easter Rising semi-chronologically, as well as reflecting on its continuing legacy. A number of objects directly relating to the execution of the leaders of the Rising were exhibited, including the blood-stained shirt of James Connolly. The Way We Wore This exhibition, which is subtitled 250 Years of Irish Clothing and Jewellery, was one of the inaugural exhibitions of the museum at its opening in 1997. It features clothing and jewellery manufactured in Ireland from the previous 250 years from the 1760s to the 1960s. The initial exhibition was expanded further in 2000, and it was the largest and most expensive exhibition of historical costume in Ireland when it opened. It cost £750,000 to mount the exhibition over 300 square meters across 3 galleries, and drew on the museum's collection as well as a number of loan objects from museums such as the Ulster