Ulster Museum Belfast | Northern Ireland | Belfast Museums
Are you still thinking about the museums to visit in Belfast during your vacation? Let us explore more about Ulster Museum which is one of the different suggestions we have.
Ulster Museum in Belfast is the place where you are going to hear the unique human story of Ireland as well as other different parts of the globe, and you will be even given guidance through the collection you are going to witness. From the interesting and exciting collection which you are going to see inside the museum, there are dinosaurs, Egyptian mummy, you will dive into the discovery zones, and a lot more.
This museum located in Belfast is for all people and all age groups because it carries something inside for all the different types of people; it has something for art lovers, for excited children who want to learn something new, for history buffs and for all the curious people out there.
There are different things to be seen inside the museum, such as the bronze age gold jewelry, the Corrard torc, which was discovered in 2009 and is the only coiled torc of this type from Ireland. There is also the Champion Patrick of Ifold, which is an Irish wolfhound that was born on St. Patrick's Day in 1923 and died in 1931 at the age of eight; wolfhounds are considered a symbol of wealth and strength in Ireland.
The list is still long, among the different other things to be seen in Ulster Museum, there is the Dale Chihuly Glass Sculpture which was done by Dale Chihuly who is the most famous glass maker in the world. Peter the Polar Bear is also one thing to be found inside this amazing museum and it is one of the museum's most famous exhibits who died in 1972 and Belfast Zoo decided to give it to Ulster Museum; it was considered the largest animal ever mounted in Northern Ireland.
In addition to showcasing things and parts of Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum is also educating people and entertaining them with other pieces from around the world, such as having Takabuti, the ancient Egyptian mummy, which helps in telling people more about how the ancient Egyptians prepared for death since they believed it is another life which they never feared. Natron salt, sweet smelling spices, resins, oils and linen bandages were used to preserve the body. The stomach, intestine, lungs and liver were stored in canopic jars made from clay or stone. Things the person would find useful in the afterlife, such as food, make-up jars, combs, children’s toys, lamps and jewellery would be placed in the burial tomb. This is all interesting to know about the ancient Egyptian mummies which Takabuti is just one of them and which was brought to Belfast in 1834 and was unwrapped in 1835.
This museum in Belfast is not just about the mummies and the old animals, but it is about history and the old stories which would be interesting to know about and even educate the kids with.
As much as this place is considered interesting for the public, there are actually lots of things calling out for different types of people, such as those Game of Thrones fans out there. The Game of Thrones tapestry is found in Ulster Museum in Belfast and it is a giant 77 meter long Bayeux tapestry, giving visitors the chance to walk by it and check this piece of art and everything else that is related to it. This tapestry brings to life the infamous events, locations and story of the most popular television series of all times, it is weaving the story from episodes 1 to 10 and it is designed by hand but weaved by a state-of-the-art machine and hand finished in Northern Ireland.
You could check this video about Game of Thrones Tapestry (
There is one good piece of information for those willing to visit Ulster Museum in Belfast, it is free of charge and opens from 10 AM till 5 PM (
There are different other museums to consider visiting while being in Belfast, such as Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( Titanic Museum in Belfast ( and lots of other amazing things to do and places to visit in the city of Belfast (
This is one of the different interesting places which we have been to in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and which we definitely recommend for all those who appreciate art, science, history and those who would like to learn new things and information along with bringing their kids to a new exciting place which they would enjoy.
Have you ever been to Ulster Museum in Belfast before? If yes, share with us your experience and tell us what did you enjoy the most and what was the thing that really left you speechless and caught your interest?
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Hoards Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast
I'm down at the fabulous Ulster Museum in Belfast. Travelling exhibitions visit the museum on a regular basis. This is the fantastic 'Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain and Ireland.'
I was very interested to discover that important hoards are being uncovered all the time throughout the British Isles, often by chance! Many have discovered in Northern Ireland and in Southern Ireland! It could be 'YOUWHO'!
This touring exhibition loaned from the British Museum and Salisbury Museum, uncovers the stories behind the headlines of buried treasure, focusing on prehistoric, Roman and later hoards. Belfast is privileged to be the only venue in the whole of Ireland to host it..
Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain and Ireland is the first new exhibition to launch Ulster Museum Belfast Jan -31st March 2019
'The exhibition traces the story of hoarding from Bronze Age weapons discovered in the river Thames and the first Iron Age coin hoards, through to hoards buried after the collapse of Roman rule in Britain and in more recent times. It showcases discoveries of hoards reported by finders and archaeologists through the Treasure Act. The exhibition also includes objects from National Museums NI’s own hoards collection including two magnificent Roman rings from Murlough, County Down, on display for the first time.
The substantial collection of artefacts and treasure on display include two spectacular Iron Age gold torcs from Ipswich. In addition to these unique artefacts, some rare items from Ireland, on loan from the British Museum, are also on show in the exhibition in Belfast.
The display explores the reasons why ancient people have placed precious objects underwater and in the ground since the Bronze Age. They may have been accidentally lost or stolen, discarded as worthless, saved for recycling, hidden for safekeeping, or offered up to the gods. Prehistoric communities deposited hoards as part of rituals to honour gods or ancestors, and to demonstrate power and wealth, while Roman coin hoards have traditionally been viewed as being hidden for safekeeping from external threats.'
Ps This is a long video. I didn't want t leave anything out.
Ulster Transport Museum - Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Ulster Transport Museum in Belfast, Nothern Ireland, is one of the most comprehensive transport collections in Europe. You’ll find majestic locomotives, horse-drawn carriages, vintage motorbikes, and cars (including one of the first DeLoreans to be made at the Dunmurry plant.)
This DeLorean is known as the Endurance car. Members of the Ulster Automobile Club drove it non-stop for three months. They covered 50,000 miles on public roads in Northern Ireland for its American emissions test. The car was driven 24 hours a day, stopping only for petrol and servicing. It has extra spot lights because much of the testing took place at night. The Endurance car came straight from the Dunmurry factory to the museum.
It was the 24th car built by DeLorean and is a permanent memorial to one of the most fascinating stories of Northern Ireland’s troubled past.
Ulster Museum
One of the jewels of our city, re-opened in October 2009 following a major rejuvenation project -- the museums extraordinary collections and unique setting have created a destination for all, revealing art and history to visitors and locals alike.
Age of the Dinosaur - Ulster Museum, Belfast (Promotional Video)
Age of the Dinosaur at the Ulster Museum opened 18th May 2012 and will run until 16th September.
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Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | We start in bustling Belfast's City Hall and Ulster Museum, then head out to Northern Ireland's favorite resort: Portrush, along the Antrim Coast, where we taste-test Irish whiskey, scramble over some six-sided geology in the Giant's Causeway, drop in on a world-class golf course, and stomp our feet to some traditional music.
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Ulster Museum & Armagh Planetarium
Images from the Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast and the Planetarium in Armagh City, captured in November 2012. Images can also be viewed at: flicker.com/photos/mjdallenphotos
trip to the Ulster museum Belfast
A trip to the Ulster Museum Belfast Northern Ireland you gotta go its great and its free.
Rembrandts Etchings Now at Ulster Museum Dec 2019
I've dropped into the fabulous Ulster Museum on the Stranmillis Road Belfast to check out 2 out of 6 of their recently acquired Rembrandt Etchings. Unfortunately there is no video or photographing allowed of this artwork.
The Ulster Museum 'has received six works by Rembrandt as a result of a deal over an outstanding tax bill.
Two of the etchings have been put on display in the Ulster Museum in Belfast, with the other four due to be exhibited at the venue soon.
They date from the 1630s to the 1650s and are the first Rembrandt works to be acquired by a Northern Ireland museum.
The were given to the tax authorities as part of an agreement to settle an inheritance tax bill of over £150,000.
A government scheme allows people to settle tax bills by handing over valuable artworks.
Arts Council England received them as a result of the tax settlement and gave them to the Ulster Museum.
The Dutch painter died 350 years ago.
His etchings entitled Six's Bridge and The Adoration Of The Shepherds have been added to the Ulster Museum's Masterpieces of Dutch Landscapes Painting exhibition.
The four etchings that have yet to be displayed are:
Bearded Man In A Furred Cap And Robe
The Artist's Mother
The Sleeping Herdsman
The Descent From The Cross By Torchlight
All six etchings will be on show in a new exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt and his influence on printmaking.
Ulster Folk Museum Co Down Northern Ireland 2018
Explore thatched cottages, farms, schools and shops as you experience life from over 100 years ago.
A museum of international renown, the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is regarded as being amongst the best of its kind in the world. Set in over 170 acres of rolling landscape overlooking Belfast Lough, visitors can wander through the past and discover how people lived and travelled over the centuries.
Climb on and off majestic steam locomotives or experience the sensation of flight in the Transport Museum, bursting with horse drawn carriages, electric trams, motorbikes, fire-engines and vintage cars. 'Discovery Farm' at the Folk Museum also provides a living history experience portraying daily life on the farms of 100 years ago.
'Discovery Farm' at the Folk Museum provides a living history experience portraying daily life on the farms of 100 years ago. Meet the people who lived on the land, visit the blacksmith in the forge, help feed the hens as they wander around the farmyard, meet the donkeys, pigs and goats, or have a taste of what's cooking in the farmhouse kitchen.
From country cooking to butter making, sheep shearing and spinning to horse grooming, Discovery Farm offers visitors the chance to see and participate in living history at its best.
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Last exhibit goes back to Ulster Museum
Belfast Telegraph TV reporter Gary Grattan tracks the last exhibit, a model of a triceratops dinosaur, as it makes its way to the refurbished Ulster Museum in Belfast ahead of its re-opening on October 22, 2009. Filmed and edited by Gary Grattan.
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Takabuti
Takabuti, The Ulster Museum Egyptian Mummy
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 objects. She was a married lady of about thirty years of age and she lived in the important city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.
Takabuti and her case
The Egyptian mummy Takabuti and her case were brought back from Thebes by Mr Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood. Her arrival was eagerly awaited by the members of the Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society, whose museum in College Square North was to be her new resting place.
As was the custom of the day, she was unwrapped on 27 January 1835 in front of specially invited members of the Society. In attendance were medical men and the celebrated Rev. Dr Edward Hincks who was rector of Killyleagh Parish Church for forty years. He was an expert in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform writing.
He was able to tell the assembled company that her name was Takabuti and that she was a married woman of between 20 and 30 years of age and the mistress of a great house. Her father was a priest of Amun and was called Nespare, while her mother was called Tasenirit. The excellent degree of mummification and the fact that she had been buried in the large cemetery on the Western side of Thebes showed that she was a woman of wealth and importance. Her burial took place at the end of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, c660 BC. Her little cape of faience beads was the burial fashion at this date. When she was re-wrapped, her face, arm and foot were left uncovered and she has remained this way ever since.
The local newspapers told the general public that they could first see Takabuti on 30 and 31 January and on 2, 4 and 6 February. She was a sensation and it is recorded that, at Easter 1835, the large public crowds never tired of inspecting her. Her fascination for visitors has never waned and today she is well known as the noble representative of a great ancient civilisation.
Places to see in ( Belfast - UK )
Places to see in ( Belfast - UK )
Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital. It was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk in 1912. This legacy is recalled in the renovated dockyards' Titanic Quarter, which includes the Titanic Belfast, an aluminium-clad museum reminiscent of a ship’s hull, as well as shipbuilder Harland & Wolff’s Drawing Offices and the Titanic Slipways, which now host open-air concerts.
Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the second largest on the island of Ireland, and the heart of the tenth largest Primary Urban Area in the United Kingdom. Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco-processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world's biggest and most productive shipyard. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. It has sustained a major aerospace and missiles industry since the mid 1930s. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland's biggest city at the beginning of the 20th century.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the Troubles, but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square.
Belfast is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. Belfast is a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city.
Alot to see in ( Belfast - UK ) such as :
Botanic Gardens
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Ulster Museum
SS Nomadic
Belfast City Hall
Golden Mile
Cavehill
Belfast Castle
Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast
St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
Waterfront Hall
Belfast Zoo
Carrickfergus Castle
Mount Stewart
Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park
Ulster Hall
Divis
Northern Ireland War Memorial
Belfast Exposed
RISE
Irish Republican History Museum
Milltown Cemetery
Titanic Belfast
HM Prison Crumlin Road
Titanic Quarter
W5
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
Stormont Estate
Ormeau Park
St George's Market
Colin Glen Forest Park
Victoria Park, Belfast
Wallace Park
Linen Hall Library
The Big Fish
Lagan Valley
Titanic's Dock And Pump House
Game of Thrones Tours Ltd Coach Pick Up
Stormont Castle
St George's Market
National Trust - The Crown Bar
Belvoir Park Forest
Peace Wall Belfast
Clonard Monastery
HMS Caroline
St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast
The Palm House
Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum
Titanic Boat Tours
Scrabo Tower
( Belfast - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Belfast . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Belfast - UK
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Victoria & Albert Museum LP Sleeves Visit Belfast
I've dropped into the excellent Ulster Museum Belfast to check out what is new in.
A new touring exhibition called 'The Art of Selling Songs Music Graphics' is now on at the Ulster Museum. This exhibition of music album sleeves comes straight from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It will stay in Belfast from mid June until mid Sehptember.
ROM Led Zepplin's Houses of the Holy to The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, some album covers are as iconic as the music itself. See how many you enjoyed or even bought all those years ago!
The Art of Selling Songs, aims to celebrate some of the world’s greatest album covers and the artists behind them.
The complex inner sleeve for Sgt. Pepper, designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, and rare 19th century posters advertising French and British live ‘smoking concerts’ are among the album artworks, sleeve notes, programmes and signs which go on display today.
See how many big title albums that you enjoyed or even bought, all those years ago!
Clandeyboye O'Neill Inauguration Stone Chair Ulster Museum
We are in the Saints and Scholars section of the Ulster Museum Belfast. This section contains a lot of medieval Irish history/antiquities.
We are here to find and film the ancient Clandeboye O'Neill inauguration Stone chair made from one complete piece of sandstone that probably was originaly quarried from near Cultra Bangor. I believe that this special 'crowning' chair was dug out of the field in 1750 at Castlreagh where we believe that Con O'Neill's Grey Castle stronghold fort/castle was sited. The chair itself is lob-sided and doesn't look very comfortable but it does remain unlike the Tyrone O'Neill 'chair' from Tullaghoge which was smashed up in 1605 by Lord Mountjoy. This curious but very special chair would have held great symbolic resonance to people of the time.
'The Clandeboye O'Neills were a branch of the O'Neills of Tyrone who settled in south Antrim and north Down in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in what had been the Anglo-Norman earldom of Ulster. The name Clandeboye, or Clann Aodh Buide, refers to their descent from Aodh Buidhe, or Hugh the Yellow-Haired, who died in 1283. Their chair may have been modelled on that at Tullaghogue, on which the O'Neills of Tyrone were inaugurated, and is the only surviving example of its kind. The Clandeboye O'Neills lost their independence with the rest of Gaelic Ulster as a result of the Nine Year's war. But the family survived, and in 1680 Cormac mac Airt Oig O'Neill sponsored the compilation of Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, the Book of Clandeboye, a manuscript collection of O'Neill genealogies and praise poems.'
'Con O'Neill, head of the Clandeboye O'Neills, is a fascinating character. He was the last of the great clan to own the massive areas of Upper Clandeboye, Lower Clandeboye and the Great Ards - which stretched from almost Ballymena to Killyleagh and included the whole of north Down and the Ards Peninsula.
Con's lifetime saw the end of old medieval Anglo/Irish Ireland and the emergence of a new modern Ulster with Scotland at the centre of Ulster's development. During his latter years Con moved from his grand castle of Castle Reagh to Ballylenaghan / Knockbracken (around 1608), and then to the lower tip of the Ards Peninsula to the remote townland of Tullycarnan (around 1616). Con died around 1618, and was said to have been buried at the old church of Knockcolumbkille, which was situated in what is now Glenmachan or Garnerville in east Belfast.
Con O'Neill bridge and the Connswater Greenway
Around 1606 when anything that's useful began, Ballyhackamore was acquired by Sir James Hamilton from Con O'Neill. As was Ballymacarrett. The maps which Thomas Raven drew for Hamilton, for both places and many more, are held at North Down Museum. Slightly south, the townland of Ballyrushboy was given by Con O'Neill to Thomas Montgomery, the man who had carried out Con's dramatic jailbreak from Carrickfergus. And slightly further south again, up in the hills that overlook east Belfast, was Con's home castle of Castle Reagh. The castle is long gone now, but the Presbyterian church (first built in 1650) is said to be pretty close to where the castle once was. Today all of this area is urban East Belfast, packed with rows of houses, shops, small businesses, schools, churches and factories. However, not all of the history has gone. Along the Beersbridge Road, tucked in between Elmgrove Primary School and the local Elim Pentecostal Church, still stands Con O'Neill's bridge.
If you do a search on this blog for Con O'Neill you'll find out lots about him, which I'll not repeat here. He gave the river, Connswater its name (which of course is a common Scottish naming form for rivers, ie Conn's Water), which centuries later (1984 to be precise) became the name of the main local shopping centre (or 'mall' for US readers!). Notes on con O' Neill are lifted from the Mark Thompson Blog ( )
Belfast Ulster museum 06-03-2016
Leonardo da Vinci, A Life in Drawing, Ulster Museum Belfast
I'm down at Belfast's Ulster Museum to video yet another remarkable exhibition that has come to Belfast.
This is Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing running from 1 Feb 2019 - 6 May 2019 ( Disappointingly I was not allowed to video inside the exhibition gallery. I was permitted to photograph each drawing individually using non flash photography. )
To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, 144 of the Renaissance master's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection will go on display in 12 simultaneous exhibitions across the UK. Belfast is honoured to be one of those UK venues.
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing, a nationwide event, will give the widest-ever UK audience the opportunity to see the work of this extraordinary artist. Twelve drawings, selected to reflect the full range of Leonardo's interests – painting, sculpture, architecture, music, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany – will be shown at each venue.
The Ulster Museum’s exhibition will include two of Leonardo’s most famous works – The Head of St Anne made around 1510 in preparation for his famous masterpiece The Virgin and Child with St Anne, which hangs in the Louvre, and an anatomical drawing from 1489, The Skull Sectioned.
The exhibition will include examples of all the drawing materials employed by the artist, including pen and ink, red and black chalks, watercolour and metalpoint.
Following the exhibitions at Royal Collection Trust's partner venues, in May 2019 the drawings will be brought together to form part of an exhibition of over 200 sheets at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in over 65 years. A selection of 80 drawings will then travel to The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse in November 2019, the largest group of Leonardo's works ever shown in Scotland.
Come and see it for yourself!
O-Kwon goes to the Ulster Museum
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A valiant bunch of miscreants, maladroits, melodramatics and general muckers went to the Ulster Museum in Belfast, NI. Enjoy!
There will be an O-Kwon channel soon, but until then I will post shiz here. Woop woop!