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The Ulster Museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in Belfast and has around 8,000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of Fine and Applied Art, Archaeology, Ethnography, Treasures from the Armada, Local History, Numismatics, Industrial Archaeology, Botany, Zoology and Geology. The Museum was founded, as the Belfast Natural History Society in 1821 and began exhibiting in 1833, it has included an art gallery since 1890. In 1929 the museum moved to its present location, the new building was designed by James Cumming Wynne. A major extension by Francis Pym was begun in 1962 and opened in 1964. Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the second-largest city in Ireland. ...
The Belfast Natural History Society was founded in 1821 to promote the scientific study of animals, plants, fossils, rocks and minerals. ...
Since the 1940s Ulster Museum has built up very good collection of art by modern Irish, and particularly Northern Irish, artists.
In 1998, the Ulster Museum, which includes Armagh County Museum, merged with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and the Ulster-American Folk Park to form the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is situated about 6 miles East of the City of Belfast. ...
In July 2005 a £12m refurbishment of the museum was announced, with funding coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ...
External link - The Ulster Museum's own site
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The early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze age artefacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period. ...
| Museums and Galleries in Ireland | | The Chester Beatty Library The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery The Downpatrick Railway Museum The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery The Hunt Museum The Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Jewish Museum Kilmainham Jail The National Gallery of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland The National Print Museum of Ireland The Pearse Museum The State Heraldic Museum The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum The Ulster Museum The Chester Beatty Library was established in Dublin, Ireland in 1950, to house the remarkable collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. ...
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery is a public art gallery in Cork city. ...
The Downpatrick & Co Down Railway is a heritage railway in County Down, Northern Ireland. ...
The Hugh Lane : Dublin City Gallery is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin city in Ireland. ...
The Hunt Museum is a museum in the city of Limerick, Ireland. ...
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as the IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Irelands leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. ...
The Irish Jewish Museum is a small museum in Dublin dedicated to the history of the Irish Jewish community. ...
Kilmainham Jail, also known as Kilmainham Gaol, is a former prison located in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. ...
The National Gallery of Ireland houses the Irish national collection of Irish and European art. ...
The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is the main museum in Ireland. ...
The National Print Museum of Ireland is based in a soldiers chapel in the Beggars Bush area of Dublin, Republic of Ireland. ...
The Pearse Museum is dedicated to the memory of Patrick Pearse, educationalist and nationalist who was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising. ...
The State Heraldic Museum in Kildare St. ...
The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is situated about 6 miles East of the City of Belfast. ...
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