National Museums NI are Northern Ireland's premier cultural, learning, and tourist destinations. Our four museums are home to 1.4 million objects in the national collection. The Ulster Museum offer something for art lovers, history buffs, excited children, and the curious. Our collections take you across Ireland and to all corners of the globe.
Come face to face with dinosaurs, get up close with an Egyptian mummy, dive into our discovery zones, or just enjoy a bit of peace and quiet at our caf and shop. Experience what life was like in Northern Ireland over 100 years ago, and explore one of the most comprehensive transport collections in Europe.
Come face to face with dinosaurs, get up close with an Egyptian mummy, dive into our discovery zones, or just enjoy a bit of peace and quiet at our caf and shop. Experience what life was like in Northern Ireland over 100 years ago, and explore one of the most comprehensive transport collections in Europe.
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From dinosaurs to electric trams, Alexander McQueen to American frontiers, across three unique sites, we develop and present inspirational collections that reflect the creativity, innovation, history, culture and people of Northern Ireland and beyond. On display in the Transport galleries at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Holywood, Co Down.
National Museums NI's art collections include fine and applied art (decorative art) of national and international significance. We hold more than 15,000 historical and contemporary artworks. This includes painting, sculpture, works on paper, glass, ceramics, silver and metalwork, jewellery, furniture, costume, and textiles.
The natural sciences collections of National Museums NI hold more than half a million specimens from Northern Ireland and beyond. Mighty whales and tiny snails, flowers and fungi, fossils and meteorites-these are just a few of the diverse specimens that we hold. Many of the finest are on display. Others form a huge reference collection for scientists and other museum users to consult.
Find out how we use research at National Museums NI and how you can access our collections. Research into the collections forms the foundations for everything we do at National Museums NI. Whether involving our curators or collaborative partners e.g. Universities, research increases our knowledge and understanding of the specimens in our care.
At National Museums NI, we are committed to decolonising our museums and collections. We recognise that decolonisation will be an ongoing process, as we learn and adapt in response to consultation. We have much further to go with this work, but we will ensure we act, change, listen, learn and develop.
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Margarita Lismore
Jun 15, 2021
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Set in a beautiful wooded countryside setting ,the Ulster Folk Museum is just like stepping back into the days of your Irish ancestors !
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"Journey back in time to rediscover Ulster as it was over a century ago. Explore rolling hills of countryside and a bustling town filled with authentic period buildings. See daily demonstrations of traditional crafts from basket weaving to printing and meet the costumed guides bringing it all to life. Your favourite stories and objects are waiting for you."
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It DEFINATELY does not disappoint! It
It is described on the Folk Museum website as ...
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"Journey back in time to rediscover Ulster as it was over a century ago. Explore rolling hills of countryside and a bustling town filled with authentic period buildings. See daily demonstrations of traditional crafts from basket weaving to printing and meet the costumed guides bringing it all to life. Your favourite stories and objects are waiting for you."
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It DEFINATELY does not disappoint! It
Huakai Mo
Nov 27, 2020
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Paula G.
Apr 29, 2010
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Visits to the Transport Museum started for us when my older child was 2 and going through the phase of true love for Thomas the Tank Engine. We would go to the museum and look at and inside the enormous steam engines - who knew they were so big! There are about 10 of these giants and kids love climbing on board and generally getting over excited.
Now steam trains I can take or leave, but there is one thing in the Transport Museum that I always have to see - check this out - a Delorean car. Remember those bad boys from the 1980s? Well I do. They were practically space age they were so modern
Now steam trains I can take or leave, but there is one thing in the Transport Museum that I always have to see - check this out - a Delorean car. Remember those bad boys from the 1980s? Well I do. They were practically space age they were so modern
Qype User Bethan
Nov 08, 2007
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Brilliant family day out, something for all ages. Special bank holiday events. Farm house, hundreds of old and new modes of transport with specialist information and details. GHuided tours of the cornmill, easter egg painting, donkey old world events. We were busy all day and didn't spend a kings ransom.
