Folk Galleries
The Folk Gallery building is situated near Ballycultra town and houses two permanent galleries; ‘Meet the Victorians’ and “Food and Farming”, and a gallery space dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
Meet the Victorians Exhibition
Learn how Victorians dressed, what they ate, how they kept clean, what they invented, how they amused themselves and how they coped with daily life. This exhibition is laid out to allow you to investigate the various areas of life as a Victorian using original items such as clothing, toys, musical instruments, sporting memorabilia, poacher’s traps and (an empty) horse-drawn hearse!
A downloadable worksheet, ‘Meet the Victorians’, accompanies this exhibition. (this worksheet may be useful for children when visiting the museum).
Food & Farming Exhibition
Examples of traditional farm machinery and equipment such as a seed fiddle, ploughs and a horse drawn reaping machine can be found in the food and farming exhibition, along with a working model of a steam thresher, information on harvest traditions including harvest knots, photographic material, and 3-dimensional scenes depicting various farming activities. You will also find information on traditional crops and animals that would have been reared for various uses and examples of typical recipes.
The Lower gallery of the Folk Gallery space hosts temporary exhibitions throughout the year. Please contact the Museum for further details, +44 (0) 28 9042 8428 or click to view Events and Exhibitions