Urban Cross-Stitch Workshops
14:00 - 17:00, Wednesday 1 February - Wednesday 22 February
Ulster Museum
Inspired by the current exhibition Street Art, Live and Learn are hosting 3 contemporary needlework workshops for the over 50s led by artist and conservator Nuala Maguire.
Street Art with KVLR
13:00 - 16:00, Saturday 4 February
Ulster Museum
Have the chance to explore street art techniques.
Street Art You - Topia
14:00 - 16:00, Thursday 9 February
Ulster Museum
Let artist Verz help you discover your inner street artist.
Graffiti Living Room
11:00 - 15:00, Saturday 25 February
Ulster Museum
Graffiti images, which are usually external, disposable and seen as undesirable, are recreated using traditional crafts.
The Grand Manner
Saturday 1 May - Tuesday 10 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.
Native, Visitor or Invader?
Friday 22 October - Tuesday 25 September
Ulster Museum
The animals and plants of Ireland are mostly either native or introduced species, while visiting species (migrants - mainly birds) add further variety. The globalisation of trade, transport, tourism and economic migration, together with climate change, has seen the arrival of many invading (alien) species - often to the detriment of native plants and animals.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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 29 January
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.
Symbolism of Landscape
10:00 - 17:00, Friday 24 June - Tuesday 20 September
Ulster Museum
20th Century Irish landscape painting from the permanent collection.
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.
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.