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The Ulster Museum's main hall, on reopening after its refurbishment in October 2009. The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial ...
This list of museums in Northern Ireland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum was the first erected in Ireland by public subscription. From its inception in 1831 and for 47 years the Museum employed a curator taxidermist named William Darragh (1813–1892). In the first report of the society he wrote an account entitled "Directions for preserving subjects in natural history".
The Ulster Museum has unveiled the new project on its website as part of its Troubles And Beyond programme. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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Replicas of the collection are kept at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. A somewhat puzzling aspect of the hoard is that scientific analysis suggests the same source for the gold in all the pieces, but they show a great diversity in style, from Celtic to Roman.
Photograph album. A collection of views taken mainly in Belfast and Ulster c.1870-c.1890; A list of photographs in the R.J. Welch Collection in the Ulster Museum. Vol. 2: Botany, geology, and zoology; Praeger, Robert Lloyd, M.R.I.A. (1865-1953): collection of photographs relating to R.L. Praeger, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy
The collection spanned most of his career beginning with those created in the 1960s. [28] The Ulster Museum hosted a major retrospective covering fifty years of Flanagan's work in 1995. The catalogue contained a foreword written by Seamus Heaney and a critical essay by Curator of Art at the Ulster Museum, Brian Kennedy. [29]