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Visit the Ulster Folk Museum

Discover how reconnecting with traditions, skills and customs from the past can help us grow and thrive in the world today.

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Visit the Ulster Transport Museum

Be inspired by the story of transport and social change in this part of the world since the birth of the modern era.

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Our places and spaces

Did you know you can hire our venues? Find out how they can offer an unique setting for your event.

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Inside the Troubles and Beyond exhibition at Ulster Museum. Yellow and black graphics on the wall say 'The Troubles and Beyond' and there is a glass display case in the background with a jacket artefact.

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Museums and heritage organisations join forces to address legacy and conflict issues

28.06.23

The Conflict and Legacy Interpretive Network has been established involving Bloody Sunday Trust/Museum of Free Derry, Ulster Museum and Healing Through Remembering.

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Renoir's L’allée au bois hung on a green wall with dimmed light shining down on the painting, with the Chief Executive of National Museums NI, Kathryn Thomson and Senior Curator of Art, Anne Stewart standing in front of it.

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Renoir masterpiece, L’allée au bois, acquired by National Museums NI

06.06.23

This is a highly important acquisition for the Ulster Museum as it is the first Impressionist painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland.

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Fashion Icons Past and Present

16.05.23

Fashion Photography from the National Portrait Gallery Collection, including portraits of Maisie Williams, Stormzy and Audrey Hepburn, go on display at Ulster Museum.

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