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2024

Discover Caravaggio at the Ulster Museum

Leading UK museums collaborate in £1million cultural innovation supporting young children and families

18.09.2024

Ulster Museum is one of eight UK museums and galleries, all leaders in early-years engagement in the cultural sector, selected to receive part of £1million funding from Art Fund and Nesta to help develop and deliver new programme for families with young children.

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Four people standing in front of a black tractor which is displayed behind glass railings. The wall and part of the floor is painted a dark navy which joins another section of floor painted bright green.

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Ferguson Black Returns: Ulster Transport Museum plays host to the tractor that revolutionised farming

23.08.2024

The prototype to modern tractor engineering is now on display at the Ulster Transport Museum and highlights Harry Ferguson’s legacy as one of Northern Ireland’s leading innovators.

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Costumed makers who work the Ulster Folk Museum, showing traditional heritage skills of printing and weaving pictured inside the authentic basket maker's workshop with willow creations on display. Representatives from the museum and CITB NI are standing in the middle with the costumed guides either side.

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Folk Museum Making Festival returns to honour Northern Ireland's heritage skills

23.07.2024

Ulster Folk Museum's annual celebration of heritage and craft skills takes place on 17 and 18 August.

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2023

The back of a person standing looking at a Peruzzi painting on a blue painted wall with down lighting

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Christmas Gift to the Nation

12.12.2023

Rare painting by the Italian artist Peruzzi - the only surviving work by the artist in the UK - goes on display at the Ulster Museum. The Nativity dates back to the 16th century and was acquired by National Museums NI in 2022.

Three people dressed in dark clothes in a grassy area with trees in the background and two of them are standing near signs that promote an environmental and biodiversity message - 'meadow in progress' and 'let it bee'.

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CEDaR unveils 10-year business plan to combat environmental and biodiversity crisis

04.12.2023

CEDaR is the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording and is a longstanding partnership between National Museums NI, DAERA, NIEA and the recording community in Northern Ireland.

Costumed guide at the Ulster Folk Museum holding a pitch fork on the farm during a learning programme for schools. Seven school children dressed in white t-shirts all have their backs to the camera, as they're interacting with the guide.

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Ulster Folk Museum awarded the national Heritage Education Trust Sandford Award for the first time

10.11.2023

Ulster Folk Museum has been awarded the prestigious Sandford Award which recognises the high standard of our educational programme for schools.

2022

Conservation Fellow at the National Gallery seated restoring Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi's The Nativity.

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Ulster Museum to be gifted Peruzzi’s The Nativity

24.12.2022

The incredibly rare sixteenth century work has been acquired by National Museums NI, in Christmas gift to the nation.

Attendees at an event held today at Ulster Museum.

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Human Rights Day: Conflict textiles pieces acquired by National Museums NI

09.12.2022

Transnational textiles representing the personal experiences of those affected by conflict, including within Northern Ireland, taken into Ulster Museum's collection.