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.
Revealed: Government Art Collection
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 15 March 2013 - Sunday 9 June 2013
Ulster Museum
The first touring exhibition from the Government Art Collection, in which over 160 works from this 114-year-old collection are ‘revealed’ under one roof.
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.
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+.
BioBlitz 2013 at Colebrooke Estate, Co. Fermanagh
17:00 - 17:00, Friday 24 May 2013 - Saturday 25 May 2013
Ulster Museum
Join CEDaR at Colebrooke Estate for this year’s BioBlitz. Help record as many species as possible in 24 hours in an exciting race against three other sites throughout Ireland.
Making Connections: Costume Unveiled
14:00 - 16:30, Wednesday 5 June 2013
Ulster Museum
Join Curator of Applied Art, Elise Taylor, for a tour of the newly refurbished Costume Galleries at the Ulster Museum and find out more about the costumes on display.
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.
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?
Young British Artists lecture series with Amanda Croft
11:00 - 12:00, Tuesday 30 April 2013 - Tuesday 4 June 2013
Ulster Museum
This series of six illustrated lectures will examine the work of artists and their relationship with the galleries, media, critics and collectors who helped to engineer and promote their careers and reputations.
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.
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.
Citizen Science: 150 years of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 8 March 2013 - Sunday 2 June 2013
Ulster Museum
The Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club was established 150 years ago to promote the study of the natural history and archaeology of Belfast and its surrounding district. This exhibition reviews the Club’s origins and achievements since then by focusing on a few of the many individuals who have enjoyed being its members.
Revealed: Government Art Collection
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 15 March 2013 - Sunday 9 June 2013
Ulster Museum
The first touring exhibition from the Government Art Collection, in which over 160 works from this 114-year-old collection are ‘revealed’ under one roof.
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.
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.
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.