Northern Ireland's Busiest Visitor Attraction
Published: 07 February 2010
More than 200,000 people have visited the Ulster Museum since it reopened, making it the busiest visitor attraction in Northern Ireland.
Pictured left are Emma Boyle from Rosetta in south Belfast with her husband Paul are welcomed by Sinclair Dooey (Front of House Assistant) at the Ulster Museum. Mrs Boyle, a science teacher at Malone College, was the 200,000th visitor to the Museum since the reopening in October.
Director of National Museums Northern Ireland, Tim Cooke, says,
“It’s great to see so many people from across Northern Ireland and beyond so excited by the new Ulster Museum. It’s been very encouraging to welcome new audiences as well as to see the positive reaction of those who were familiar with the old museum.”
“We have in place a varied range of programming and partnership activity and would invite those who haven’t yet experienced the new Ulster museum to come and see it for themselves,” he added.
Niall Gibbons, Chief Executive of Tourism Ireland, the organisation responsible for marketing the island of Ireland overseas, commented:
“The newly refurbished Ulster Museum is a wonderful addition to the Belfast, and indeed the island of Ireland, tourist experience. Our visitors will love it. Tourism Ireland intends to grow holiday visitors to Northern Ireland by +10% in 2010 and attractions such as the Ulster Museum, with exhibitions of international renown such as a major art retrospective by Sean Scully, help to give Belfast and Northern Ireland ‘stand-out’ in the competitive international marketplace.”
The Ulster Museum’s schools education programme is already fully booked until June and the events programme including movie matinees, bird watching with the RSPB and applied art master-classes have been hugely popular. Building upon the success of the Sean Scully art exhibition, next month, the Ulster Museum will open a major new series of art exhibitions showcasing some of the best Irish and international art from the museum’s own permanent collection.
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Media contact: Kathryn Kirk, JPR, kathryn.kirk@jprni.com or 028 9076 0066 or 078 3404 9137.
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