The Ulster Crisis: Irish Home Rule and the Ulster Covenant
Friday 21 September 2012 - Sunday 30 March 2014
Ulster Museum
In 1912, Ireland stood on the brink of conflict. It seemed inevitable that, by 1914, a parliament in Dublin would govern Ireland for the first time in over a hundred years.
A Gift to the City - Paintings by Sir John Lavery
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 17 May 2013 - Sunday 15 September 2013
Ulster Museum
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Belfast Charter, which granted Belfast town status in 1613, this exhibition focuses on one of Belfast’s most famous painters.
Reflections: Costume 1730-2013
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 31 May 2013 - Sunday 27 April 2014
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum has a brand new costume gallery, and we’re using it to showcase the very best of our costume collection, from the Georgian period to the present day.
Making Connections: April - September Programme
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 3 April 2013 - Wednesday 4 September 2013
Ulster Museum
Making Connections Afternoons take place on the 1st Wednesday of each month. On these afternoons the Museum offers additional programming specifically for anyone aged 50+.
Making Connections: April - September Programme
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 10 April 2013 - Wednesday 11 September 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Making Connections is a programme of open afternoons for anyone aged 50+ and takes place on the second Wednesday of every month at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum.
Making Connections: April - September Programme
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 17 April 2013 - Wednesday 18 September 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Making Connections Afternoons take place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Ulster American Folk Park. Alongside free entry for anyone aged 50+ after 12 noon, we also offer special events on each date.
Ferguson Heritage Tractor Working Day
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 29 June 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The popular Ferguson Tractor Day returns to the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. Organised in association with the Ferguson Heritage Tractor Society, see a display of vintage tractors in Ballycultra town and working demonstrations in the rural museum.
Hidden History Beneath Belfast's Hills
19:30 - 21:30, Wednesday 3 July 2013
Ulster Museum
Come along and hear about the amazing discoveries unearthed during the Belfast Hills Partnership’s community excavation – the ‘Divis Big Dig’. With Malachy Conway, Ruairi O’Baoill and Harry Welsh.
American Independence Celebrations
10:00 - 17:00, Thursday 4 July 2013 - Sunday 7 July 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Where better to celebrate the 4th July than in Frontier America?
Elizabethan Activities
11:15 - 12:15, Tuesday 9 July 2013 - Sunday 25 August 2013
Ulster Museum
Come along to Discover History for our Elizabethan summer of activities.
Making Connections: July
12:00 - 16:00, Wednesday 17 July 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Alongside free entry after 12 noon for anyone aged 50+, July's Making Connections programme offers you the opportunity to find out more about Murray's Drapery Shop.
Capri Car Club Day
10:00 - 17:00, Sunday 21 July 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Bring a picnic along and join the Ford Capri and RS owners clubs as they show off these classic cars in the grounds of the Transport Museum.
Donkey Day
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 3 August 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Bring the kids and a camera as you get close to these wonderful animals. Held in partnership with the Donkey Breed Society, the annual Donkey Day proves that donkeys are more than just something to admire in the fields as these wonderful animals take on the donkey obstacle course, egg and spoon races and musical chairs in the BDS Championship.
Native and Traditional Breeds Weekend
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 17 August 2013 - Sunday 18 August 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
See traditional breeds of cattle, horses, pigs, poultry and sheep across the outdoor folk museum and Ballycultra town area.
Making Connections: August
12:00 - 16:00, Wednesday 21 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Enjoy a summer's afternoon at the Folk Park with free entry after 12 noon of you are aged 50+ and a curatorial talk on Irish Lace.
Return of Thomas Mellon
Monday 26 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
It’s August 1882 and banker, judge entrepreneur, millionaire and founding father of one of America’s richest business dynasties, Thomas Mellon has travelled back across the Atlantic Ocean to visit the home in which he was born 69 years earlier.
22nd Annual Bluegrass Music Festival
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 30 August 2013 - Sunday 1 September 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
There’ll be strumming on the porches of the log cabins, dancing in the cobbled streets and jamming outside the General Store.
Bluegrass in the Park Friday Sessions
13:00 - 18:00, Friday 30 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Stroll through the outdoor museum as a mix of international and home-grown talent fill the air with the infectious sounds of bluegrass and old-time music.
Bluegrass Friday Evening Concert
20:00 - 23:00, Friday 30 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
The line-up for the opening night of the 22nd Anniversary Festival includes multi-talented artists from home and abroad! American Bluegrass band Cedar Hill, English Bluegrass band Jaywalkers and Scottish band Southern Tenant Folk Union open the 2013 Bluegrass Festival!
Bluegrass Saturday Evening Concert
20:00 - 23:00, Saturday 31 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Lonesome River Band, Rawhide and Lynda Dawson with Pattie Hopkins will be on stage for the Saturday Bluegrass Evening concert!
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Spirit of Bluegrass Gospel Concert
18:30 - 20:30, Sunday 1 September 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Back by popular demand this years Spirit of Bluegrass Gospel Concert is a definite must see! The grand finale of the Bluegrass 2013 Music Festival will see Cedar Hill and The Churchmen take to stage.
Night at the Museum 2013/2014
19:00 - 09:30, Friday 25 October 2013 - Saturday 26 October 2013
Ulster Museum
Have you ever wondered what happens when the visitors leave the Ulster Museum for the night?
June Creative Arts and Crafts Programme
Saturday 1 June 2013 - Sunday 30 June 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
With 5 courses running this month including a family activity. Why not come to the Ulster Folk &Transport Museum and get involved with one (or more!)of these wonderful workshops.
Summer Creative Arts and Crafts Programme
Monday 1 July 2013 - Saturday 31 August 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The final Month of our 2012/2013 Creative Arts and Crafts Programme here at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, is not to be missed! With all but one course NEW to the programme this year. There should be something of interest to everyone.
Craft Month for the over-50s
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 2 August 2013 - Friday 30 August 2013
Ulster American Folk Park
Enjoy an exciting range of creative workshops programmed by the Live and Learn project for those aged 50 years and over.
Craft Month Workshops
10:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 7 August 2013 - Friday 30 August 2013
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
August Craft Month at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum offers a range of creative workshops and activities for all ages
Craft Month workshops for the over-50s
13:30 - 17:00, Wednesday 7 August 2013 - Thursday 29 August 2013
Ulster Museum
Live and Learn's August Craft Month at the Ulster Museum offers a two creative workshops and activities for anyone aged 50+.
Native, Visitor or Invader?
Friday 22 October 2010 - Sunday 12 January 2014
Ulster Museum
The animals and plants of Ireland are mostly either native or introduced species, while visiting species (migrants - mainly birds) add further variety. The globalisation of trade, transport, tourism and economic migration, together with climate change, has seen the arrival of many invading (alien) species - often to the detriment of native plants and animals.
Titanic: Window on Emigration
10:00 - 16:00, Tuesday 28 February 2012 - Sunday 2 March 2014
Ulster American Folk Park
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the emigrants from Ireland who boarded Titanic?
The Ulster Crisis: Irish Home Rule and the Ulster Covenant
Friday 21 September 2012 - Sunday 30 March 2014
Ulster Museum
In 1912, Ireland stood on the brink of conflict. It seemed inevitable that, by 1914, a parliament in Dublin would govern Ireland for the first time in over a hundred years.
Painting in St Ives
Friday 28 September 2012 - Sunday 1 September 2013
Ulster Museum
During the twentieth century St Ives, a picturesque Cornish fishing town, became a major centre for the Modern Movement in British art.
Three Hundred Years of Irish Landscape Painting
Friday 2 November 2012 - Sunday 1 September 2013
Ulster Museum
This exhibition, drawn from the Ulster Museum collection, traces the history of Irish landscape painting from the 1700s to present.
A Gift to the City - Paintings by Sir John Lavery
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 17 May 2013 - Sunday 15 September 2013
Ulster Museum
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Belfast Charter, which granted Belfast town status in 1613, this exhibition focuses on one of Belfast’s most famous painters.
Reflections: Costume 1730-2013
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 31 May 2013 - Sunday 27 April 2014
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum has a brand new costume gallery, and we’re using it to showcase the very best of our costume collection, from the Georgian period to the present day.
On Set by Helen Sloan
10:00 - 17:00, Sunday 9 June 2013 - Wednesday 26 June 2013
Ulster Museum
On-Set presents the unseen world behind the gloss of the finished film/production. The exhibition focuses on the constructed environments and subsequent scenes specially designed for the creation of the visual spectacle that is cinema.
The Sea Around Us
Ulster Museum
This gallery consists of a series of dioramas with a sound commentary taking the visitor on a journey into the sea around Ireland.
Saints and Scholars
Ulster Museum
Saints and Scholars explores Irish history from AD 400 to AD 1600.
Origins: The early Solar System
Ulster Museum
The Solar System was formed more than 4,560 million years ago from a swirling cloud of hot gas, dust and ice orbiting the Sun. Earth was one of just eight large planets to form but many other much smaller planets also formed and have remained virtually unchanged since that time.
Living World
Ulster Museum
We share planet Earth with a vast diversity of living things – perhaps tens of millions of different species. Life, in some form, exists everywhere on the Earth’s surface.
Fossils and Evolution
Ulster Museum
Evolution is the natural process that makes sense of seemingly strange fossils that are found in ancient rocks, of the living things all around us and, indeed, of ourselves. Evolution explains how, and why, all life today shares so many similarities, originating in a distant common ancestor, and how immense complexity and huge diversity have arisen from tiny and simple beginnings more than three billion years ago.
Earth's Treasures
Ulster Museum
The objects on view in Earth’s Treasures are the finest mineral specimens from the Ulster Museum’s collections and they have been selected for display because of their form and beauty.
Early Peoples
Ulster Museum
Early Peoples tells the stories of the prehistoric peoples of Ireland from over 9000 years ago until just before the arrival of Christianity.
Deep Time: Episodes from our geological past
Ulster Museum
Planet Earth was formed more than 4,500 million years ago. Its journey through geological time is recorded in the rocks, minerals and fossils of the Earth’s crust. The rocks that now make up Ireland are part of that story.
This gallery tells the story of Ireland’s geological odyssey in eleven episodes.
Armada
Ulster Museum
Of the 130 Spanish ships that set out in 1588 to invade England, over 20 of them were wrecked off the North and West coasts of Ireland.
Wheels of Business: Transport at Work
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
People have invented vehicles for different working purposes over hundreds of years. Without vehicles, the potential of any business is limited. This exhibition recognises and appreciates the contribution of transport to our economy - past, present and future.
Rail Gallery
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The railway collection is housed in the largest single museum gallery space in Ireland.
Folk Galleries
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The displays in these galleries complement the buildings in the town and rural areas by telling more of the stories of the people who once lived in them, and showcasing some of the most intriguing objects in our collections. The two permanent galleries explore the themes of 'Food and Farming' and 'Meet the Victorians'.
Driven: Achieving through Transport
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
This exhibition recognises how transport provides opportunities for people to perform above and beyond their physical limitations.
Air Transport
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Northern Ireland has long been associated with aircraft production. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's aviation collection includes a dozen aircraft.
Impressions of Irish History
Friday 18 September 2009 - Saturday 7 November 2009
Armagh County Museum
Impressions of Irish History: a photographic exhibition by John Bradshaw. John Bradshaw was born in Cork. Over the past number of years he has put together stunning
photographs capturing ten thousand years of Irish history.
Shot in black and white and using traditional darkroom printing methods, the images cover
a wide range of places, people and objects from the Ice Age to the present day.
Portraits of Astronomers
Friday 20 November 2009 - Saturday 9 January 2010
Armagh County Museum
With both an Observatory and Planetarium
on the museum’s doorstep, this exhibition
of forty photographic portraits of leading UK
astronomers offers a new voyage of discovery
for those wanting to learn more about space.
Spanning the era of early discoveries in radio
astronomy right up to the latest developments
in astrophysics and cosmology, sitters
including Sir Patrick Moore and Stephen
Hawking, describe what inspired them to study
astronomy providing further insight into
their remarkable lives.
From Earth to the Universe
Monday 30 November 2009 - Saturday 9 January 2010
Armagh County Museum
A stunning collection of astronomical images
created to contribute to the 2009 International
Year of Astronomy as designated by the United
Nations to celebrate the 400th anniversary
of Galileo’s first use of a telescope for
astronomical observations
Creativity in the Classroom
Friday 22 January 2010 - Saturday 10 April 2010
Armagh County Museum
Creativity in the Classroom is an Exhibition of Children’s Art from County Antrim and Armagh.
Photographic Competition and Exhibition
Thursday 22 April 2010 - Wednesday 16 June 2010
Armagh County Museum
This annual exhibition attracts entries from all over Ireland. Categories include: Over 18s: black and white, colour and historic Armagh, under 18s and under 12s.
Joey Dunlop: King of the Roads
Friday 7 May 2010 - Sunday 26 September 2010
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Ballymoney born Joey Dunlop (1952-2000) is universally acknowledged as the greatest motorcycle road racer of all time. Amongst countless victories he holds the record of 26 wins at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races.
Museum Matters
Thursday 16 September 2010 - Saturday 15 January 2011
Armagh County Museum
Museums Matters is an exhibition which highlights the important role Museums play in collection, preserving and using objects to connect with a wide range of audiences.
Hands across the border: Dreamcatcher
Friday 28 January 2011 - Saturday 9 April 2011
Armagh County Museum
This joint exhibition of quilts by the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and the Irish Patchwork Society is celebrated in the title Hands Across the Border.
Enslaved
Friday 16 September 2011 - Saturday 7 January 2012
Armagh County Museum
Photographic impressions of the Atlantic slave trade
Through the Eye of a Needle
Friday 16 September 2011 - Tuesday 10 April 2012
Armagh County Museum
The sewing needle has been an essential tool in everyday life for over 10,000 years.
Focus on Birds
Friday 20 January 2012 - Tuesday 10 April 2012
Armagh County Museum
Focus on Birds showcases 20 stunning images of wild birds selected from the last six years of the Work of Northern Ireland Bird Photographers competition
Images of Mongolia
10:00 - 16:00, Tuesday 6 November 2012 - Sunday 18 November 2012
Ulster Museum
This exhibition aims to showcase the unique culture of Mongolia through a combination of Mongolian postal history, photographs and a selection of works by contemporary Mongolian artists.
Space Pups Art Installation
10:00 - 17:00, Tuesday 5 March 2013 - Sunday 7 April 2013
Ulster Museum
In association with Young at Art the Ulster Museum is delighted to host an installation of giant inflatable puppies.