Baird's Print Shop
In the days long before photocopiers and digital printers, many Ulster towns had a jobbing printer.  Their job was to cater for the printing requirements of local institutions, businesses, politicians, clergy and local government.They printed everything from billheads, dockets and labels for...

Basketmaking
Baskets were the cardboard packaging and plastic crates of their day. They provided a cheap, practical, disposable and readily renewable range of containers for industry, home and farm (get closer by clicking the images).Baskets were used to store and transport, apples, potatoes, coal, textiles, ...

Draper's Shop
In 2007 the museum opened a draper’s shop, R.J.SLOANE, based directly on the original from Kilkeel in Co. Down. Today’s visitors can see the drapery shop as it would have been around 1907, complete with the weaver at work in the ‘shed’ at the rear of the shop.  &...

Leatherwork
In the early 1900s the north of Ireland supported a range of leatherworking activities.  These ranged from the initial processing and tanning of many different locally sourced hides, to the manufacture of leather goods, primarily shoes.Leather was used for saddlery and harness making.  ...

McCusker's Pub
Believe it or not, it is only in recent years that that the consumption of alcohol has become socially acceptable.  In the 19th century, there was a degree of shame associated with being seen entering or leaving a public house, such as McCusker’s Pub. Yet ironically, the public house w...

Patchwork Quilts
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has one of the largest collections of patchwork and quilted bedcovers in the British Isles, with over 600 examples, dating from 1790 to the mid-1990s. This definitive collection of Irish quilts includes examples of all the main patchwork techniques and styles,...

Picture House
The silent cinema came from the linen mill village of Gilford, Co Down.It operated from 1909 up to the late 1931 and the cinema was known locally as the Picture House. Its’ premises were housed in an old hay loft, in the upper floor of an old two storey outhouse; part of a group of out...

Still & Moving image archive
The value of photographs as integral to the collections of the museum was accepted from the beginning of the museum's development and consequently, over the past forty plus years, the archive has evolved into probably the most significant local source of historical images from the 1860's to the p...

The Old Rectory
Analysis of the annual growth rings in the roof timbers has established that this house was built in 1717. This house is also an example of English rather than Irish building traditions, as the skills and techniques employed in its construction were brought into Ireland by English settlers.The wa...

Transport Galleries
The railway collection is housed in the largest single museum gallery space in Ireland. Steam locomotives, passenger carriages and goods wagons are combined with extensive railway memorabilia, interactive displays and visitor facilities including a children's play area (get close by clicking on t...