Ancient Egypt
Takabuti (The Egyptian Mummy) lived during the 25th dynasty c660BC. She came to the museum in 1834 and was unwrapped in February 1835. She is located in the Life & Death of Ancient Egypt Gallery(13).The mummy of the lady Takabuti and her case represent the Egyptian collection of some 2000 o...

Belleek
The Belleek factory was founded in 1857, in an area rich in the raw materials necessary to make porcelain as well as earthenware and stoneware.It originally traded as McBirney & Co and produced a wide range of domestic earthenware. Once technical problems had been overcome the factory began t...

Diamond brooch
This brooch can be viewed in the George and Angela Moore Gallery of Applied Art. Jewellery fulfils a number of functions including the obvious one of personal adornment. It can celebrate an event such as an engagement, a wedding, or an anniversary (image, Diamond brooch, French, 18th century, cli...

Iron Age Metalwork
Iron Age objects in the collections include brooches, horse-bits, spearheads, swords and scabbards. Some of the finest objects are: a unique decorated bronze spearhead from Moy, County Tyrone; a wooden tankard with decorated bronze fittings from Carrickfergus, County Antrim; and, several decorate...

Morpho Butterflies
There are around 80 species of the genus Morpho. They are found only in the Neotropical Region (South America including Mexico and Central America).The blue is not a pigment colour (pigments are materials that change the colour of light by selective absorption-dyes are an example). Instead Morpho...

Patrick
Patrick of Ifold was born on the 17 March 1923, St Patrick's Day and died on 8 May 1931, aged eight years old. He was owned by Mrs Beynon of Broadoak, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. Patrick was a very famous champion wolfhound during his lifetime. He won his first championship at 14 months old, at the Ri...

Peter the Polar Bear
Peter the Polar Bear is one of the most popular exhibits and is on display in the Window on Our World which starts in the welcome area of the museum. When he died in August 1972 he was presented to the Ulster Museum by Belfast Zoo (click image to enlarge).He was carefully prepared and mounted for...

Seymchan Pallasite Slice
Meteorites are rare and wondrous things, fragments of worlds other than our own.The weight of gold that has been mined on Earth far exceeds the total weight of all meteorites in the world’s collections. Among the rarest of meteorites are pallasites, in which translucent yellow or green crys...

The Armada Collection
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.The Ulster Museum owns the excavated remains of three of these ships, the galleass Girona which was wrecked at Lacada Point, near the Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim...