News & Press

2025

A picture of black and white photography panels - the panel in the main you can clearly make out the photos; the panel on the right is blurred for effect

Exploration of Northern Ireland’s photographic heritage opens at Ulster Museum

4.4.2025

The Ulster Museum, in partnership with The Belfast Archive Project, has launched a series of photography exhibitions running throughout 2025. This trilogy of exhibitions explores the stories behind pivotal moments in Northern Ireland’s past, and the photographers who captured them.

Read news

Julian Friers and Dr Mike Simms in the Ulster Museum Wild Ireland exhibition

News

Walk on the wild side: Ulster Museum exhibition explores Ireland's life forms past and present

13.3.25

Over 60 paintings bringing Ireland’s natural history to life go on display at the Ulster Museum

Read news

News

Further research suggests ancient human remains found in Bellaghy likely to be female

20.2.2025

The “Ballymacombs More Woman” is an exceptionally rare discovery of an Iron Age female bog-preserved remains.

Read news

2024

Chief Executive of National Museums NI, Kathryn Thomson, dressed in a black jumpsuit, shakes hands with Princess Anne as she receives an awards. Princess Anne wears a tan coloured blazer, neck scarf and gloves.

News

National Museums NI recognised by Princess Royal Training Awards

29.11.2024

Now established as a prestigious and sought-after accolade, this year’s Princess Royal Training Awards attracted 127 applications from across the UK and Ireland with 52 winners - National Museums NI being one of them.

Read news

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons & Kathryn Thomson, Chief Executive of National Museums NI

News

Communities Minister commends engineering heritage at museum visits

15.11.2024

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has visited the Ulster Folk Museum and the Ulster Transport Museum. As part of the visits, Minister Lyons viewed the latest exhibit in the impressive transport collection.

Read news

News

Voices of '74: Ulster Museum unveils powerful oral history project

25.10.2024

The online project draws on the importance of oral history to document the memories and experiences of the past, in order to encourage conversations about the future

Read news

2023

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

News

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'.

News

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

4.12.2023

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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

9.12.2022

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