What you'll see at the National Museum in Dublin can help you appreciate 7,000 years of Irish history.

It tells us just something about the sophistication of this culture.

Coming up, Finton O'Toole recommends some of Ireland's most important

historical objects for us to view. After sculpting his masterpiece, David, Michelangelo was at the top of

his game. He was a young David, He was the best sculptor on earth and he was ready to take on the world.

But as his fame grew, so did the issues that complicated his life outside the studio.

A man was a mess. that complicated his life outside the studio.

A man was a mess.

Gene Openshaw takes a fresh look at Michelangelo at midlife.

And linguist Ross Perlin reminds us how the world comes together in New York City.

You can experience all these languages and cultures within just a few blocks of each other.

He's working to preserve mother tongues that are in danger of dying out with a dwindling number

of native speakers. It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steve's.

Come along.

You can hear hundreds of languages being spoken on the streets of New York City.

In a bit, the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance tells us about their race against time

to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history.

And we'll look at the midlife crisis that Michelangelo had to endure some 500 years ago.

Let's start today's travel with Rick Steeves at a very special place in Dublin.

Ireland's National Museum is one of my favorite museums anywhere.

It's rich artifacts from ancient gold to

exquisite medieval brooches to reminders of their tumultuous early 20th

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