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The Ulster Museum was founded as the Belfast Natural History Society in 1821 and began exhibiting in 1833. It has included an art gallery since 1890. Originally called the Belfast Municipal Museum and Art Gallery, [3] in 1929, it moved to its present location in Stranmillis. The new building was designed by James Cumming Wynne.
The Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum (Irish: Iarsmalann na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach), is a museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 2007 after years of campaigning by Eileen Hickey, who collected the exhibits. [1] The museum is based in Conway Mill in the Falls Road area of West Belfast. The site is a former ...
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.
Both the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of the city of Belfast.Now operating as two separate museums, the Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions of the people in Northern Ireland, past and present, while the Transport Museum explores and exhibits methods of transport by land ...
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Titanic Belfast had a record-breaking year in 2017/18 with 841,563 people visiting the tourist attraction and the year before saw the Titanic Museum take home the World's Leading Tourism Attraction Award at the World Travel Awards (2016). [13] In the same year, Titanic Belfast saw 84% of its visitors coming from outside Northern Ireland. [14]
Local advocates, the Assembly Rooms Alliance, aim to transform this heritage-listed building into the Museum of the Troubles and Peace, fostering reflection on Northern Ireland’s complex history ...
In 1989, the centre was opened as the Old Museum Arts Centre. [5] The Old Museum is a Grade A listed building of the Belfast Natural History Society.Two decades later, the building needed a renovation and its limitations, such as the lack of accessibility for wheelchair users, prompted the OMAC to build anew.