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The Boyne Day event will take place at the Museum of Orange Heritage, Schomberg House, Belfast, on Saturday

Museum in Belfast to host annual Boyne Day event for all ages

Commissioned by Qatar Foundation and nestled in its Education City campus, the museum was inaugurated on November 28, 2025

Ad Feature M. F. Husain Museum named one of TIME World's Greatest Places 2026

Junior Ministers Aisling Reilly and Joanne Bunting, Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald and Communities Minister Gordon Lyons with representatives of Derry City and Strabane District Council and other funding partners at the event in Ebrington Square marking the official start of work on the DNA Museum

New museum in Londonderry will ‘honour heritage and history’

St Petersburg, Florida

What happened when I visited Florida as an LGBT+ traveller

A guitar once thought to have been lost for over 50 years, owned by The Rolling Stones, has been discovered as part of a collection at a New York art museum.

Stolen Rolling Stones' guitar found at New York Museum

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons with Carol Walker from the Somme Museum in Newtownards

Additional funding for Somme Museum in Newtownards

Mark Cranston who has built an amazing collection of bricks.

I have a collection of 4,000 bricks...each one tells a story

Three brandy glasses during Ararat factory tour

I tried brandy in Armenia - and it has made me a convert

German Observation Tower on south coast cliffs, Guernsey

Visit Guernsey to discover underground bunkers and WW2 history

The Band of the Royal Irish Regiment at the D-Day 80th anniversary commemoration in Lisburn. Photo: Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Lisburn leads the way in commemorating heroism that freed Europe from tyranny

The best towns and cities for a Staycation including Liverpool

Most of the essays in 'Ireland Out Of England And Other Inconveniences' are responses to the post-Brexit campaign by activists North and South to win a border poll and thereby Irish unification

John Wilson Foster: Let’s suspend Irish unity campaign for now

Married couple Janet and John Ford, who own Tudor World, are at loggerheads with Joe Rukin, who runs Sinister Stratford ghost tours.

Turf war breaks out between Stratford-upon-Avon ghost tour guides

Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Who is Presley Cash?

Queen Camilla during a visit to Robinson Library, Armagh, Co Armagh, to continue her work to foster a love of reading across all ages as part of a two day visit to Northern Ireland

Queen Camilla meets children and volunteers at historic library

Postcard view of Whitehead from the 19th century showing some of the features added by Victorian engineer Berkeley Deane Wise (Carrickfergus Museum Collection)

Mid and East Antrim's fascinating industrial heritage to be celebrated
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is gearing up to celebrate the Borough’s fascinating industrial heritage next month.
Darryl Armitage

Buckingham Palace

King Charles drops major hint about future of Buckingham Palace

An exceptionally rare Chinese box and cover from the 15th century Ming period has been discovered in a dust-filled cabinet in the attic of a family home, where it had been stored and left untouched since the owner’s death in 1967.

Old tin found in attic turns out to be Chinese Ming Dynasty treasure

Two Just Stop Oil supporters were arrested at the Herbert Museum in Coventry while demanding that the government stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and calling on employees and directors of UK cultural institutions to join in civil resistance against the governments genocidal policies.

Just Stop Oil protestors tackled to ground after storming dino exhibit

The Natural History Museum has released a list of new animal and plant species found in 2022

Scientists release list of new animals and plants found in 2022

Margaret Patterson McMahon, CEO of Townsend Enterprise Park is pictured with Paul Darragh, board member at Townsend alongside Peter Darragh, operations manager

Townsend Enterprise Park marks 35 years of business regeneration

Anne Stewart, senior curator of art, National Museums NI with Blue Sky Thinking, 2019, Patrick Goddard, the artist and Seventeen, London

Ulster Museum welcomes Goddard’s famous Blue-Sky Thinking sculpture

There are lots of events taking place across Northern Ireland this week to celebrate the festive season.

What's on in Northern Ireland next week?

MINI LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE GEARS UP TO OPEN AT GLENARM CASTLE IN JULY

Mini Land Rover experience gears up to open at Glenarm Castle on July 1

The Mayor of Ards and North Down Councillor Trevor Cummings with North Down Museum Manager, Heather McGuicken pictured with the ‘NI100: Our Borough, Our People’ Exhibition

Museum and arts centre reopen

Pupils taking part at Carnalbanagh PS Ballymena

Museum packs suitcase and goes on tour of NI schools

Lord Dunluce and Lady Dunluce from Glenarm Castle with Tourism NI CE John McGrillen

Major investment helps create visitor experiences at Glenarm Castle
Glenarm Castle has announced a £500k investment, including support from Tourism NI’s experience development programme.
Claire Cartmill

Larne Museum

New Larne store for 30,000 museum items

Curator Dr Jonathan Mattison and Outreach Officer David Scott

Museum of Orange Heritage to reopen to public

This year’s Boyne Day celebrations will go online

Boyne Day celebrations to go virtual this year

We now have more freedoms to enjoy, with parks, playgrounds, zoos, museums and cinemas reopening (Shutterstock)

Here are 40 ideas for keeping the kids entertained during the summer holidays

Museum’s search for best football fan memorabilia

Vicki Linton with son Jacob and Lisa Fenton with daugher Freya.

Museum reports record numbers at Edwardian Tea Room

Outreach officer David Scott, curator Jonathan Mattison, and service officers Coleen Large and Helen Johnston with an unusual Orange banner from the United States

Orange Order puts focus on its rich tradition of regalia

The fireworks display over the River Foyle in Londonderry. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 31.10.18

In pictures: Halloween in Londonderry, 2018

All set for UFU centenary celebration weekend

Barclays Bank are sponsoring the UFU Centenary Celebration Weekend at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum on 5th and 6th May. Pictured are Barclay Bell, UFU President, Caroline Doyle, Barclays Agricultural Manager, and Ivor Ferguson, UFU Deputy President.

UFU to celebrate centenary with weekend at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The Beacon Hotel in New York's Upper West Side.

Live it up as a local in vibrant New York

US Army Rangers who trained in Carrickfergus during World War 2

History to come alive at Museum re-opening

An artists impression of how the new centre will fit into its natural surroundings

Marcon awarded fit-out of first National Landscape Discovery Centre.

One of the light-hearted Christmas cards on sale from the Orange Order this year

Lodge Life: Orange Order penguins bid Christmas greetings

A picture of Drew Nelson in 1992, around the time Mark Orr became a neighbour

Drew was loyal in every respect

A scene from the video depicting 17th century Carrickfergus rendered in Minecraft. INCT 41-723-CON

Minecraft video brings 17th century Carrickfergus to life

Dr David Hume

Why being in the Orange Order is '˜part of your DNA'

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