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Young people take part in project to record Troubles experiences

Jack Fricker, Darren Leighton, chairman of the Belfast Bands Forum, Boston Colwell, William Blair, director of collections at National Museums NI and Bentley Forsythe Pic: Kelvin Boyes/PressEye/PA Wire

NI flute bands hail Ulster Museum event as opportunity to 'break down barriers'

The sculptures installed on the Ulster Museum building, Botanic Gardens

'Belfast landmark' has new home: Flying statues of Shaftesbury Square reappear

Charlotte McReynolds, Curator of Art at National Museums NI, putting the final touches to the Ashes to Fashion exhibition at the Ulster Museum, opening later this month that will bring a fashion collection lost following a fire bomb in Belfast back to life.

Ulster Museum fashion collection brought back to life after 1976 fire bomb

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Dr Geraldine Macartney (Chair of the Ulster Scientists Trust), recipients Fionntán Murtagh, Sinead Brolly and Aoife Logue, along with Professor Pascal McKeown (Trustee of the Ulster Scientists Trust) and Gordon Milligan (Chair of National Museums NI)

BRIGHT SPARKS IN SCIENCE CELEBRATED AT THE ULSTER MUSEUM

From left, Kathryn Thomson, Chief Executive of National Museums NI and Anne Stewart, Senior Curator of Art, are launching ‘A Time of Gifts’, a new display showcasing major works by two of Ireland’s most celebrated artists; Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) and Sir William Orpen (1878–1931).

Major new allocation of Irish art unveiled at the Ulster Museum

Kathryn Thomson, Chief Executive of National Museums NI with Anne Stewart, Senior Curator of Art

IRISH ART: MAJOR ACQUISITIONS AT THE ULSTER MUSEUM

Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, Co. Tyrone - Courtesy Of Tourism Northern Ireland

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Karen Logan, Senior Curator of History and William Blair, Director of Collections, National Museums NI pictured with some of the founding members of Belfast’s First Urban Gaeltacht, Gaeltacht Bhóthar Seoighe, and Micheál Mac Giolla Ghunna, Spórtlann na hÉireann Director (third from right).

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The Bell Archive Exhibition runs until 30th November

EXHIBITION ENDING: James Bell Archive Exhibition Until 30th November

Kathryn Thomson, Chief Executive of National Museums NI, delegates from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs - Kuike Kamakea-Ohelo, Kamana Caceres, Kalehua Caceres and Mana Caceres - and Hui Iwi Kuamo'o during the repatriation ceremony. Three sets of ancestral human remains taken from burial caves in Hawaii and brought to Belfast in the 19th century have been repatriated.

Human remains taken from Hawaiian burial caves repatriated from Northern Ireland

Chair Gordon Milligan, Communities Minister, Chief Executive Kathryn Thomson

Communities Minister welcomes National Museums NI corporate stratgey

The attempt by the deputy leader of the Alliance Party, Eóin Tennyson, to have conversion therapy banned in Northern Ireland is well-meaning but foolish

Ruth Dudley Edwards: We must fight the free speech fight

A partial solar eclipse, as seen from space. Courtesy of the European Space Agency

Astronomers invited to Ulster Museum on March 29 to see partial solar eclipse

Wild Ireland Past Present and Future has opened at Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum exhibition explores wildlife past and present
Wild Ireland: Past, Present and Future is a collaboration between artist Julian Friers and National Museums NI
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The Boyne Bridge after it was closed to traffic ahead of being dismantled

Leafletting campaign against 'unsafe' road crossings at Grand Central Station

Ian Paisley with a megaphone during an address to a massed gathering of supporters in the Shankill Road area of Belfast in May 1974. Pic: PA/PA Wire

Turbulent events of 1974 brought to life in Ulster Museum's oral history project

Deborah Brown was born into a prosperous Belfast family in 1927, but spent much of her childhood at Cushendun

Dublin auction for works of celebrated Belfast artist Deborah Brown

50 most fun educational visitor attractions

New list reveals most ‘fun’ educational visitor attractions in Belfast

Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus, 1601, which is being displayed with The Taking Of Christ at the Ulster Museum, Belfast

Rare reunion as Caravaggio paintings displayed together at Ulster Museum

Lola Shannon (age 12) from Ashfield Girls’ High School joined Louise Rice, Education Manager of National Museums NI and Tony Marron, Managing Director of Liberty IT at the launch of a new STEAM-focused workshop to inspire young people to develop their tech skills.

New workshop at Ulster Museum fuses technology and art

Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, 1602. Photo: National Gallery of Ireland/PA Wire

Two Caravaggio paintings to have rare reunion at Ulster Museum

Kyomi and Pixie with their grandmother at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

Translink has just the ticket for a family day out this half-term

If I Were a Blackbird (1941) Colin Middleton Oil on Canvas ©️ The Estate of Colin Middleton

Art lovers' last few days to see Colin Middleton works in his native Belfast

Pictured in October 1981 at the Royal Ulster Autumn show and sale at Balmoral is Alan McCracken from RHM who is seen handing over a cheque to the overall beef champion Hereford bull to Norman McMordie of Ballygowan. Looking on is Robert McBride, who judged the championship. Picture: Farming Life archives/Darryl Armitage

3,000-year-old gold armlet set to be returned to farmer’s wife (1967)

Undated handout photo issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of Conservation Fellow Olivia Stoddart, restoring Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi's The Nativity. The painting, which is also the first High Renaissance painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland, has gone on display at the south Belfast attraction just weeks before Christmas Day

The Nativity, dating back to 1515, goes on show at Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum in Belfast is celebrating giving the Christmas gift of an “exceptionally rare” painting of the nativity to visitors.
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Northern Ireland entrepreneurs and founders of Momentum, Amée Spence and Warren Giffin (pictured) are inviting local businesses to take part in their second inaugural event. Momentum: A Night At The Museum will take place on September 22 and aims to bridge the gap between business needs and mindset support

Momentum: A Night At The Museum to boost business needs and mindset support

The IRA mural is removed and taken to the Ulster Museum for its ‘Troubles and Beyond' collection

IRA mural put in museum and replaced with floral wall art

Anne Stewart, Senior Curator of Art at National Museums NI, at the works before their removal today with John Ferris, Regional Board Member, Ulster Bank.

Well known Belfast sculpture is on the move after 60 years

L'Allee Au Bois by Pierre Auguste Renoir is now on display at the Ulster Museum in what is a major acquisition for the gallery. The impressionist painted the work in a woodland near Paris between 1874 and 1880.

Renoir's sense of the beauty of landscape and intangibility of swirling breezes

L'Allee Au Bois, a rare landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which has been has been acquired by National Museums NI and is on display at the Ulster Museum.

A first for Ulster Museum as rare Renoir painting goes on public display

Kathryn Thomson, chief executive of National Museums NI, Anna Liesching, curator of art at National Museums NI and co-curator of the exhibition, artist Hannah Starkey and Clare Gormley, director of programmes at the Belfast Photo Festival

Portraits of 'Principled and Revolutionary' women goes on display

Contemporary jeweller Anna Gordon will speak at the Craft NI Forum

Jeweller Anna Gordon to be guest speaker at Craft NI Forum

L-R Laura O’Connor, Kathryn Thomson, Anna Liesching, Emma Campbell.

The immersive installation was created in 2021

CCEA’s Art and Design Education Manager, Anne McGinn congratulates young artist Leah Massey on their artwork, along with Principal Gary Greer (from Bloomfield Collegiate School) at the exhibition launch

Work of outstanding art students goes on display at Ulster Museum

Jimmy Stewart learns that his life has infinite influence on the lives of others in It's A Wonderful Life - one of many festive classics showing at the Ulster Museum as part of the Cinemagic festival

Cinemagic festive screenings at Ulster Museum offer plethora of movie classics

Johnny Hanna of KPMG with adjudicator Joe Lindsay and RUA President Dan Dowling

RUA Annual Exhibition celebrates 15-year partnership with KPMG

Pictured at The Regency, Belfast in County Antrim are Anthony Kieron, proprietor of The Regency, Belfast and David Roberts, director strategic development at Tourism NI

The Regency Belfast gets five stars

Dr Ken Griffin in the Ulster Museum alongside the mummy Takabuti, the exhibit that triggered his interest in Egyptology

Belfast man lands dream role as Egypt Centre’s new head curator

hloe Diamond, Cinemagic and Bruce Gardiner-Crehan, South Belfast Foodbank Manager at the launch of the ‘Cinemagic Young Audiences Supporting Foodbanks, at The Ulster Museum

Cinemagic audiences support foodbank

Artist Joy Gerrard with Protest Crowd, Charlotte, USA, (Black Lives Matter 2016), (2017)

Collage exhibition invites new perspectives at Ulster Museum

Children can find out about dinosaurs and meet the ancient Egyptian mummy Takabuti

Seven attractions to keep children entertained in Belfast now

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

Make your own festive wreath and table centrepiece at the Ulster Folk Museum this weekend.

What's on in Northern Ireland next week?

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?

There are plenty of things happening across Northern Ireland this week.

5 things you can get up to in Northern Ireland next week

Damien McNally, Mo Norton, Kathryn Thomson chief executive of National Museums NI, Colin Davidson, National Museums NI's Kim Mawhinney, John Reid and WAVE's Dennis Godfrey

Colin Davidson’s exhibition Silent Testimony returns to Ulster Museum

The Ulster Museum is the ideal spot for a rainy day this half term.

10 things to do in Northern Ireland with kids during half term

Botanic Gardens is the ideal spot for an autumn walk close to the city centre.

10 autumn walks near Belfast: Best city and woodland trails near me

Anne Stewart, senior curator of Art at National Museums NI and Kathryn Thomson, chief executive of National Museums NI with Tissot's Quiet

Tissot’s Quiet painting is allocated to the Ulster Museum collection

Dr Greer Ramsey, curator of archaeology at National Museums NI, with some of the gold rings found at Murlough

Buried treasures unearthed by the public fill gaps at Northern Ireland museums

Dr Karen Logan with EastSide Partnership’s heritage officer Lisa Rea Currie at their community display

Troubles book and display at museum

National Museums NI’s Kathryn Thomson and MD of LQ BID, Chris McCracken

Belfast’s newest free attraction, the Golden Mile Walking Trail, is launched by ...

Exhibition Curator Niamh Baker

National Museums NI and Nerve Centre hold major exhibition

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