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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 ...
With more than 30 exhibit buildings to explore, the museum tells the story of three centuries of Irish emigration. Using costumed guides and displays of traditional crafts, the museum focuses on those who left Ulster for America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The museum is part of National Museums Northern Ireland. [4] [5]
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.
Other highlights include the Titanic experience, working with sheepdogs, Glenveagh National Park, Donegal, Enniskillen, ferry rides, Devenish Island and much more as the group traverses through ...
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 ...
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 Northern Ireland War Memorial also called NI War Memorial [1] [2] and War Memorial [1] was opened in 2007 in Talbot Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland.It replaced an earlier building called Memorial House which was located in Waring Street on a site which was bombed during the Blitz in 1941.
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.