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Making Connections
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 4 April - Wednesday 5 September
Ulster Museum
Making Connections is a programme of open afternoons for anyone aged 50+ and takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at the Ulster Museum.
BioBlitz 2012
17:00 - 17:00, Friday 18 May - Saturday 19 May
Ulster Museum
Centre for Environmental Data and Recording BioBlitz Event at Crawfordsburn Country Park. A BioBlitz is an exciting race against the clock. Over a 24 hour period, scientists, naturalists and members of the public work together to find as many species as possible within a defined location.
Dinosaurs at Night
17:00 - 21:00, Friday 18 May
Ulster Museum
Come to meet our scary new residents for yourselves – if you dare!
Jurassic Park
14:00 - 16:00, Sunday 27 May
Ulster Museum
Dino Bites Film Season, brought to you by the Ulster Museum and Queen's Film Theatre.
Dinosaur Hunt
18:00 - 21:00, Friday 1 June
Ulster Museum
A terrifying meat-eating dinosaur is on the loose in the Ulster Museum! Can you come and help us track him down?
Jurassic Plants
11:00 - 11:30, Wednesday 6 June
Ulster Museum
How would you like to see some Jurassic plants, which provided habitats and food for dinosaurs? An expert guide from the Botanic Gardens will lead you on this tour of the Tropical Ravine.
Leonardo through his drawings
12:00 - 13:00, Friday 15 June
Ulster Museum
Find out more about Leonardo da Vinci from Martin Clayton, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection.
Leonardo’s influence on modern medicine
13:00 - 14:00, Thursday 21 June
Ulster Museum
Staff from the School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, explain why an artist working over 500 years ago is still so revered and relevant in professional medical practice.
One Million Years BC
14:00 - 15:30, Sunday 24 June
Ulster Museum
Dino Bites Film Season, brought to you by the Ulster Museum and Queen's Film Theatre.
The Lost Dinosaur
12:00 - 14:00, Saturday 7 July
Ulster Museum
Meet Roary, a baby dinosaur who has got himself lost in the museum. Can you help this brave little explorer find his way home?
Dinosaur Diggers Club
11:00 - 14:30, Saturday 21 July
Ulster Museum
Join Laura Crafty and Dr Smart to discover more about dinosaur habitats, and all the amazing things we can learn from dinosaur bones.
The Land Before Time
14:00 - 15:10, Sunday 29 July
Ulster Museum
An animated dinosaur adventure for all the family. Littlefoot has been orphaned and sets out on a journey to find the ‘Great Valley’...
Real Reptiles!
10:30 - 17:00, Saturday 4 August
Ulster Museum
Many reptiles look just like dinosaurs! But are they actually related?
One of our Dinosaurs is Missing
14:00 - 15:35, Sunday 26 August
Ulster Museum
Disney’s comedy classic, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum
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The Colour of Dinosaur Feathers
13:00 - 14:00, Friday 14 September
Ulster Museum
Professor Mike Benton, of the Bristol Dinosaur Project, reveals exciting new evidence about the colour of dinosaur feathers.
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.
Richard Long
Saturday 26 September - Saturday 12 December
Ulster Museum
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with the Art Fund. Born in 1945, Richard Long is one of a generation of distinguished British artists whose work extends the possibilities of sculpture beyond the confines of traditional materials and display.
Rites of Passage
Thursday 22 October - Friday 11 February
Ulster Museum
People everywhere have always marked the major rites of passage, such as birth, marriage and death, with special customs and ceremonies.
Flights of Fancy
Thursday 22 October - Sunday 12 September
Ulster Museum
Flights of Fancy features over two hundred of the Ulster Museum’s finest mounted birds.
Renaissance to Romanticism - Old Masters Paintings
Thursday 22 October - Sunday 30 January
Ulster Museum
The museum’s Old Masters collection has been built up since 1893 and comprises works by Flemish, Dutch, Italian and British painters of the 15th to the 19th centuries. This selection includes one of the most significant donations in the history of the museum: J.M.W. Turner’s Dawn of Christianity (Flight into Egypt), donated in 1913.
Picture That!
Friday 20 November - Sunday 28 March
Ulster Museum
Paintings of their memories by the cross-community women’s group from St Matthew’s Primary School, Short Strand and Avoniel Primary School, inspired by and exhibited alongside John Kindness’ ‘Belfast Frescos’.
Grand Designers
Friday 26 March - Sunday 7 November
Ulster Museum
The fashion exhibition, entitled “Grand Designers”, will highlight many of the finest fashion designers in the Ulster Museum collection and is part of the wider re-hang of the top floor art galleries which will see over 170 works of Irish and international artists from the Ulster Museum’s permanent collection.
Power to Shock
Friday 26 March - Wednesday 13 October
Ulster Museum
This exhibition contains many of the most important and best-loved works in the Ulster Museum collection of twentieth-century Irish art.
After the Bomb
Friday 26 March - Sunday 5 June
Ulster Museum
The collection of post-war international art at the Ulster Museum was begun in the late 1950s and is largely composed of work by European and American artists. One of the greatest strengths of the collection is a group of American ‘Colour-Field’ paintings dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Major Art Exhibition
Friday 26 March - Tuesday 26 October
Ulster Museum
A spectacular exhibition of Irish and international art covering four centuries is to go on display at the transformed Ulster Museum from late March.
Borders
Thursday 6 May - Saturday 12 June
Ulster Museum
Polish Cultural Week is returning to Belfast for the fourth time as a part of the ‘Polska! Year’ with a range of events to share Polish culture, arts, heritage and language in venues across the city from the 6th of May 2010.
Ethno - Fashion
Thursday 6 May - Saturday 12 June
Ulster Museum
As part of IV Polish Cultural Week at the Ulster Museum Teresa Seda looks at contemporary fashion design in Poland.
Putting on the Glitz
Friday 26 November - Sunday 8 May
Ulster Museum
See stunning sequined and beaded dresses from the Ulster Museum’s costume collection. This display will include beautiful evening dresses dating from the splendid opulence of the 19th century to the present day.
A New Order - 20th Century Irish Art
Friday 3 December - Sunday 1 May
Ulster Museum
This exhibition contains many of the most important and best-loved works in the Ulster Museum collection of twentieth-century Irish art. The arrangement is based on the themes of Figure, Place and Imagination.
Focus on Birds
Friday 21 January - Sunday 27 March
Ulster Museum
Focus on Birds features some of the best and most engaging images from the Work of Northern Ireland Bird Photographers competition over the last six years.
The Grand Manner
Wednesday 16 February - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum holds a fine collection of British portraits from the 1700's and early 1800's including a number of sitters with strong local connections.
Georg van der Weyden: Poland through foreign eyes
10:00 - 17:00, Thursday 5 May - Sunday 15 May
Ulster Museum
Georg van der Weyden is a photographer of Swedish origin. He has spent the past couple of years travelling and learning about and understanding Poland. As he did so, he fell in love with Poland’s beauty, history and people – as well as the country’s numerous other intriguing dimensions.
Art of the Enlightenment
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 20 May - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
The period from the 1770s to the 1820s is considered the ‘Golden Age’ of British watercolour painting and this small exhibition contains some of the finest works on paper in the Ulster Museum collection.
Flower Power
Friday 27 May - Sunday 19 February
Ulster Museum
The beauty of flowers has inspired centuries of art and design. This exhibition celebrates the use of floral motifs in costume and dress, from the embroidered silks and printed cottons of the Victorian era, to the laser printed textiles of 21st century fashion.
Symbolism of Landscape
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 24 June - Tuesday 20 September
Ulster Museum
20th Century Irish landscape painting from the permanent collection.
STARSTRUCK - Final weekend!
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 1 July - Sunday 25 September
Ulster Museum
A touch of good old-fashioned Hollywood glamour descends on the Ulster Museum this summer.
Silent Echoes
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 7 October - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
This exhibition showcases Post-War International Art and recent acquisitions. The Post-War period gave rise to many diverse and radical artistic movements; unifying themes can however, be found in abstraction and the experimental use of new media.
The Queen: Art and Image
Friday 14 October - Sunday 15 January
Ulster Museum
From Beaton and Leibovitz to Annigoni and Warhol, this touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery explores the startling range of artistic creativity and media-derived imagery that the Queen has inspired.
26 Treasures
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 14 October - Saturday 29 October
Ulster Museum
If the Ulster Museum’s most precious objects could talk, what stories might they tell? It’s a question many of our most successful poets, writers, artists, designers and photographers have pondered.
Tags Not Labels
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 9 December - Sunday 4 March
Ulster Museum
To accompany the exhibition 'Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A', on tour from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Street Art
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 9 December - Sunday 4 March
Ulster Museum
The biggest artists in the street art community are on display in this touring exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
True Colours
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 13 January - Wednesday 22 February
Ulster Museum
A unique and exciting exhibition of outstanding artwork by some of the brightest young artists and designers in Northern Ireland’s schools and colleges
A Gift to the City - Paintings by Sir John Lavery
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 27 January - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
This exhibition showcases the Ulster Museum's collection of paintings by Sir John Lavery R.A. 1856-1941. In 1929 Sir John Lavery gave thirty-four of his paintings, representing all periods of his career, to the newly opened Belfast Museum and Art Gallery.