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Making Connections
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 14 March - Wednesday 12 September
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Making Connections is a programme of open afternoons for anyone aged 50+ and takes place on the second Wednesday of every month at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
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Making Connections
12:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 4 April - Wednesday 5 September
Ulster Museum
Making Connections is a programme of open afternoons for anyone aged 50+ and takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at the Ulster Museum.
Men’s Skills Afternoon
12:00 - 16:00, Friday 18 May
Ulster American Folk Park
Throughout the outdoor park area and in outdoor exhibit buildings
BioBlitz 2012
17:00 - 17:00, Friday 18 May - Saturday 19 May
Ulster Museum
Centre for Environmental Data and Recording BioBlitz Event at Crawfordsburn Country Park. A BioBlitz is an exciting race against the clock. Over a 24 hour period, scientists, naturalists and members of the public work together to find as many species as possible within a defined location.
Dinosaurs at Night
17:00 - 21:00, Friday 18 May
Ulster Museum
Come to meet our scary new residents for yourselves – if you dare!
National Drawing Day: Sketching and Talk
12:00 - 16:00, Saturday 19 May - Sunday 20 May
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum celebrates National Drawing Day with a weekend of activity.
Horse Drawn Vehicle Day
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 26 May
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
See horses being prepared and harnessed by members of the Northern Ireland Driving Club.
Jurassic Park
14:00 - 16:00, Sunday 27 May
Ulster Museum
Dino Bites Film Season, brought to you by the Ulster Museum and Queen's Film Theatre.
Dinosaur Hunt
18:00 - 21:00, Friday 1 June
Ulster Museum
A terrifying meat-eating dinosaur is on the loose in the Ulster Museum! Can you come and help us track him down?
Cultra Hill Climb
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 2 June
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
From 1930's cars to motorbikes to classic rally cars, this event covers every era in an exuberant display of style, sound, smell and colour.
Titanica: Street Theatre
10:00 - 17:00, Monday 4 June
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The costumed characters of the People's Story come to life with short plays and performances
Jurassic Plants
11:00 - 11:30, Wednesday 6 June
Ulster Museum
How would you like to see some Jurassic plants, which provided habitats and food for dinosaurs? An expert guide from the Botanic Gardens will lead you on this tour of the Tropical Ravine.
Making Connections: Wool Day
12:00 - 16:30, Wednesday 13 June
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Join us at the Folk museum for a range of activities exploring aspects of the woollen textiles industry. Alongside demonstrations, there will be a range workshops and activities to participate in.
Leonardo through his drawings
12:00 - 13:00, Friday 15 June
Ulster Museum
Find out more about Leonardo da Vinci from Martin Clayton, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection.
A Grand Day out: Grandparents' Day
10:30 - 16:30, Saturday 16 June
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Grandparents! Enjoy a day out at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum with the whole family. There will be a range of activities, performances, demonstrations, music and crafts suitable for all ages.
Leonardo’s influence on modern medicine
13:00 - 14:00, Thursday 21 June
Ulster Museum
Staff from the School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, explain why an artist working over 500 years ago is still so revered and relevant in professional medical practice.
One Million Years BC
14:00 - 15:30, Sunday 24 June
Ulster Museum
Dino Bites Film Season, brought to you by the Ulster Museum and Queen's Film Theatre.
Ferguson Heritage Tractor Working Day
10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 30 June
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Organised in association with the Ferguson Heritage Tractor Society, see a display of vintage tractors in Ballycultra Town and working demonstrations in the rural museum.
The Lost Dinosaur
12:00 - 14:00, Saturday 7 July
Ulster Museum
Meet Roary, a baby dinosaur who has got himself lost in the museum. Can you help this brave little explorer find his way home?
Dinosaur Diggers Club
11:00 - 14:30, Saturday 21 July
Ulster Museum
Join Laura Crafty and Dr Smart to discover more about dinosaur habitats, and all the amazing things we can learn from dinosaur bones.
The Land Before Time
14:00 - 15:10, Sunday 29 July
Ulster Museum
An animated dinosaur adventure for all the family. Littlefoot has been orphaned and sets out on a journey to find the ‘Great Valley’...
Real Reptiles!
10:30 - 17:00, Saturday 4 August
Ulster Museum
Many reptiles look just like dinosaurs! But are they actually related?
One of our Dinosaurs is Missing
14:00 - 15:35, Sunday 26 August
Ulster Museum
Disney’s comedy classic, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum
Bluegrass Music Festival
Friday 31 August - Sunday 2 September
Ulster American Folk Park
The 21st Annual Appalachian & Bluegrass Music Festival will take place this year from Friday 31st August to Sunday 2nd September.
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The Colour of Dinosaur Feathers
13:00 - 14:00, Friday 14 September
Ulster Museum
Professor Mike Benton, of the Bristol Dinosaur Project, reveals exciting new evidence about the colour of dinosaur feathers.
The Sea Around Us
Ulster Museum
This gallery consists of a series of dioramas with a sound commentary taking the visitor on a journey into the sea around Ireland.
Saints and Scholars
Ulster Museum
Saints and Scholars explores Irish history from AD 400 to AD 1600.
Origins: The early Solar System
Ulster Museum
The Solar System was formed more than 4,560 million years ago from a swirling cloud of hot gas, dust and ice orbiting the Sun. Earth was one of just eight large planets to form but many other much smaller planets also formed and have remained virtually unchanged since that time.
Living World
Ulster Museum
We share planet Earth with a vast diversity of living things – perhaps tens of millions of different species. Life, in some form, exists everywhere on the Earth’s surface.
Fossils and Evolution
Ulster Museum
Evolution is the natural process that makes sense of seemingly strange fossils that are found in ancient rocks, of the living things all around us and, indeed, of ourselves. Evolution explains how, and why, all life today shares so many similarities, originating in a distant common ancestor, and how immense complexity and huge diversity have arisen from tiny and simple beginnings more than three billion years ago.
Earth's Treasures
Ulster Museum
The objects on view in Earth’s Treasures are the finest mineral specimens from the Ulster Museum’s collections and they have been selected for display because of their form and beauty.
Early Peoples
Ulster Museum
Early Peoples tells the stories of the prehistoric peoples of Ireland from over 9000 years ago until just before the arrival of Christianity.
Deep Time: Episodes from our geological past
Ulster Museum
Planet Earth was formed more than 4,500 million years ago. Its journey through geological time is recorded in the rocks, minerals and fossils of the Earth’s crust. The rocks that now make up Ireland are part of that story.
This gallery tells the story of Ireland’s geological odyssey in eleven episodes.
Armada
Ulster Museum
Of the 130 Spanish ships that set out in 1588 to invade England, over 20 of them were wrecked off the North and West coasts of Ireland.
Wheels of Business: Transport at Work
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
People have invented vehicles for different working purposes over hundreds of years. Without vehicles, the potential of any business is limited. This exhibition recognises and appreciates the contribution of transport to our economy - past, present and future.
TITANICa: The People's Story at the Folk Museum
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Explore the ultimate living history experience of Titanic by walking and talking with the people who knew her best. Dress in period costumes and take away your own copy of the Titanic launch ticket.
Rail Gallery
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The railway collection is housed in the largest single museum gallery space in Ireland.
Folk Galleries
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The displays in these galleries complement the buildings in the town and rural areas by telling more of the stories of the people who once lived in them, and showcasing some of the most intriguing objects in our collections. The two permanent galleries explore the themes of 'Food and Farming' and 'Meet the Victorians'.
Driven: Achieving through Transport
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
This exhibition recognises how transport provides opportunities for people to perform above and beyond their physical limitations.
Air Transport
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Northern Ireland has long been associated with aircraft production. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's aviation collection includes a dozen aircraft.
Fighting Irishmen
Friday 29 May - Sunday 29 November
Ulster American Folk Park
Celebrating Celtic Prizefighters 1820 to Present. Organised by the Irish Arts Center in New York City
and under the direction of guest curator James J.
Houlihan, ‘Fighting Irishmen’ tells the story of Irish
emigration through the sport of boxing.
A mainstay in New York and Boston for three years,
this is the first time the internationally acclaimed
exhibition has gone on display outside the U.S.A.
The exhibition features an array of robes, gloves,
boxing bags, prints, photographs, paintings
and films of Celtic Prizefighters from 1820
to the present day.
The exhibition offers a unique glimpse at the role
that prizefighting played in the history of Irish
America. Back in earlier decades, as the Irish sought
to find their feet, boxing was often a quick passport
to a better life for those who had a talent for it.
Through the Eye Of A Needle
Monday 27 July - Friday 22 January
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
The sewing needle has been an essential tool in everyday life for over 10,000 years. It has given us sails to carry ships around the world, clothes to keep us warm, and quilts to sleep under. This is an exhibition
in praise of the sewing needle and all its creations, whether for pleasure or for profit. The exhibition includes embroidered pictures and needlework samplers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fine examples of Irish lace, and some more recent examples of ‘make do and mend’ stitching. A full programme of talks and workshops will accompany the exhibition.
Impressions of Irish History
Friday 18 September - Saturday 7 November
Armagh County Museum
Impressions of Irish History: a photographic exhibition by John Bradshaw. John Bradshaw was born in Cork. Over the past number of years he has put together stunning
photographs capturing ten thousand years of Irish history.
Shot in black and white and using traditional darkroom printing methods, the images cover
a wide range of places, people and objects from the Ice Age to the present day.
Richard Long
Saturday 26 September - Saturday 12 December
Ulster Museum
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with the Art Fund. Born in 1945, Richard Long is one of a generation of distinguished British artists whose work extends the possibilities of sculpture beyond the confines of traditional materials and display.
Renaissance to Romanticism - Old Masters Paintings
Thursday 22 October - Sunday 30 January
Ulster Museum
The museum’s Old Masters collection has been built up since 1893 and comprises works by Flemish, Dutch, Italian and British painters of the 15th to the 19th centuries. This selection includes one of the most significant donations in the history of the museum: J.M.W. Turner’s Dawn of Christianity (Flight into Egypt), donated in 1913.
Rites of Passage
Thursday 22 October - Friday 11 February
Ulster Museum
People everywhere have always marked the major rites of passage, such as birth, marriage and death, with special customs and ceremonies.
Flights of Fancy
Thursday 22 October - Sunday 12 September
Ulster Museum
Flights of Fancy features over two hundred of the Ulster Museum’s finest mounted birds.
Portraits of Astronomers
Friday 20 November - Saturday 9 January
Armagh County Museum
With both an Observatory and Planetarium
on the museum’s doorstep, this exhibition
of forty photographic portraits of leading UK
astronomers offers a new voyage of discovery
for those wanting to learn more about space.
Spanning the era of early discoveries in radio
astronomy right up to the latest developments
in astrophysics and cosmology, sitters
including Sir Patrick Moore and Stephen
Hawking, describe what inspired them to study
astronomy providing further insight into
their remarkable lives.
Picture That!
Friday 20 November - Sunday 28 March
Ulster Museum
Paintings of their memories by the cross-community women’s group from St Matthew’s Primary School, Short Strand and Avoniel Primary School, inspired by and exhibited alongside John Kindness’ ‘Belfast Frescos’.
From Earth to the Universe
Monday 30 November - Saturday 9 January
Armagh County Museum
A stunning collection of astronomical images
created to contribute to the 2009 International
Year of Astronomy as designated by the United
Nations to celebrate the 400th anniversary
of Galileo’s first use of a telescope for
astronomical observations
Creativity in the Classroom
Friday 22 January - Saturday 10 April
Armagh County Museum
Creativity in the Classroom is an Exhibition of Children’s Art from County Antrim and Armagh.
Through The Eye of a Needle
Friday 26 February - Monday 29 August
Ulster American Folk Park
*Now extended until August 2011*
The sewing needle has been an essential tool in everyday life for over 10,000 years. It has given us sails to carry ships around the world, clothes to keep us warm, and quilts to sleep under.
Grand Designers
Friday 26 March - Sunday 7 November
Ulster Museum
The fashion exhibition, entitled “Grand Designers”, will highlight many of the finest fashion designers in the Ulster Museum collection and is part of the wider re-hang of the top floor art galleries which will see over 170 works of Irish and international artists from the Ulster Museum’s permanent collection.
Power to Shock
Friday 26 March - Wednesday 13 October
Ulster Museum
This exhibition contains many of the most important and best-loved works in the Ulster Museum collection of twentieth-century Irish art.
After the Bomb
Friday 26 March - Sunday 5 June
Ulster Museum
The collection of post-war international art at the Ulster Museum was begun in the late 1950s and is largely composed of work by European and American artists. One of the greatest strengths of the collection is a group of American ‘Colour-Field’ paintings dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Major Art Exhibition
Friday 26 March - Tuesday 26 October
Ulster Museum
A spectacular exhibition of Irish and international art covering four centuries is to go on display at the transformed Ulster Museum from late March.
Photographic Competition and Exhibition
Thursday 22 April - Wednesday 16 June
Armagh County Museum
This annual exhibition attracts entries from all over Ireland. Categories include: Over 18s: black and white, colour and historic Armagh, under 18s and under 12s.
The Art of History
Friday 30 April - Monday 2 May
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
***Please note that from Monday 4 April 2011 to Tuesday 19 April 2011 the exhibition will be closed for refurbishment.*** Watercolours of Irish Town Life in the 1820s by Sampson Towgood Roch (1757-1847)
Borders
Thursday 6 May - Saturday 12 June
Ulster Museum
Polish Cultural Week is returning to Belfast for the fourth time as a part of the ‘Polska! Year’ with a range of events to share Polish culture, arts, heritage and language in venues across the city from the 6th of May 2010.
Ethno - Fashion
Thursday 6 May - Saturday 12 June
Ulster Museum
As part of IV Polish Cultural Week at the Ulster Museum Teresa Seda looks at contemporary fashion design in Poland.
Joey Dunlop: King of the Roads
Friday 7 May - Sunday 26 September
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Ballymoney born Joey Dunlop (1952-2000) is universally acknowledged as the greatest motorcycle road racer of all time. Amongst countless victories he holds the record of 26 wins at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races.
Museum Matters
Thursday 16 September - Saturday 15 January
Armagh County Museum
Museums Matters is an exhibition which highlights the important role Museums play in collection, preserving and using objects to connect with a wide range of audiences.
Putting on the Glitz
Friday 26 November - Sunday 8 May
Ulster Museum
See stunning sequined and beaded dresses from the Ulster Museum’s costume collection. This display will include beautiful evening dresses dating from the splendid opulence of the 19th century to the present day.
A New Order - 20th Century Irish Art
Friday 3 December - Sunday 1 May
Ulster Museum
This exhibition contains many of the most important and best-loved works in the Ulster Museum collection of twentieth-century Irish art. The arrangement is based on the themes of Figure, Place and Imagination.
Focus on Birds
Friday 21 January - Sunday 27 March
Ulster Museum
Focus on Birds features some of the best and most engaging images from the Work of Northern Ireland Bird Photographers competition over the last six years.
Hands across the border: Dreamcatcher
Friday 28 January - Saturday 9 April
Armagh County Museum
This joint exhibition of quilts by the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and the Irish Patchwork Society is celebrated in the title Hands Across the Border.
The Grand Manner
Wednesday 16 February - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum holds a fine collection of British portraits from the 1700's and early 1800's including a number of sitters with strong local connections.
Georg van der Weyden: Poland through foreign eyes
10:00 - 17:00, Thursday 5 May - Sunday 15 May
Ulster Museum
Georg van der Weyden is a photographer of Swedish origin. He has spent the past couple of years travelling and learning about and understanding Poland. As he did so, he fell in love with Poland’s beauty, history and people – as well as the country’s numerous other intriguing dimensions.
Art of the Enlightenment
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 20 May - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
The period from the 1770s to the 1820s is considered the ‘Golden Age’ of British watercolour painting and this small exhibition contains some of the finest works on paper in the Ulster Museum collection.
Flower Power
Friday 27 May - Sunday 19 February
Ulster Museum
The beauty of flowers has inspired centuries of art and design. This exhibition celebrates the use of floral motifs in costume and dress, from the embroidered silks and printed cottons of the Victorian era, to the laser printed textiles of 21st century fashion.
Symbolism of Landscape
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 24 June - Tuesday 20 September
Ulster Museum
20th Century Irish landscape painting from the permanent collection.
Armagh Art Club Summer Exhibition
Saturday 25 June - Friday 2 September
Armagh County Museum
Armagh Art Club has been exhibiting paintings in the museum for over 40 years.
STARSTRUCK - Final weekend!
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 1 July - Sunday 25 September
Ulster Museum
A touch of good old-fashioned Hollywood glamour descends on the Ulster Museum this summer.
Enslaved
Friday 16 September - Saturday 7 January
Armagh County Museum
Photographic impressions of the Atlantic slave trade
Through the Eye of a Needle
Friday 16 September - Tuesday 10 April
Armagh County Museum
The sewing needle has been an essential tool in everyday life for over 10,000 years.
Creative Summer Showcase
14:00 - 16:00, Thursday 29 September - Thursday 20 October
Ulster American Folk Park
Participants in Live and Learn summer workshops celebrate their achievements by presenting the film installation "Moving Lives" and a colourful exhibition of their arts and crafts.
Silent Echoes
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 7 October - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
This exhibition showcases Post-War International Art and recent acquisitions. The Post-War period gave rise to many diverse and radical artistic movements; unifying themes can however, be found in abstraction and the experimental use of new media.
The Queen: Art and Image
Friday 14 October - Sunday 15 January
Ulster Museum
From Beaton and Leibovitz to Annigoni and Warhol, this touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery explores the startling range of artistic creativity and media-derived imagery that the Queen has inspired.
26 Treasures
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 14 October - Saturday 29 October
Ulster Museum
If the Ulster Museum’s most precious objects could talk, what stories might they tell? It’s a question many of our most successful poets, writers, artists, designers and photographers have pondered.
Warriors of the Plains
10:00 - 16:00, Tuesday 18 October - Sunday 5 February
Ulster American Folk Park
200 years of Native North American honour and ritual at the Ulster American Folk Park.
Tags Not Labels
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 9 December - Sunday 4 March
Ulster Museum
To accompany the exhibition 'Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A', on tour from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Street Art
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 9 December - Sunday 4 March
Ulster Museum
The biggest artists in the street art community are on display in this touring exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
True Colours
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 13 January - Wednesday 22 February
Ulster Museum
A unique and exciting exhibition of outstanding artwork by some of the brightest young artists and designers in Northern Ireland’s schools and colleges
Focus on Birds
Friday 20 January - Tuesday 10 April
Armagh County Museum
Focus on Birds showcases 20 stunning images of wild birds selected from the last six years of the Work of Northern Ireland Bird Photographers competition
A Gift to the City - Paintings by Sir John Lavery
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 27 January - Sunday 15 April
Ulster Museum
This exhibition showcases the Ulster Museum's collection of paintings by Sir John Lavery R.A. 1856-1941. In 1929 Sir John Lavery gave thirty-four of his paintings, representing all periods of his career, to the newly opened Belfast Museum and Art Gallery.