Ulster Museum
Location: Belfast City
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Located in Belfast's excellent Botanic Gardens, the Ulster Museum houses an eclectic collection covering not just Ulster History but Ancient Egypt and the Spanish Armada also.
A permanent exhibition on World Cultures is especially interesting, as is the one on the Industrial History of Northern Ireland, especially the fascinating story of the Linen Industry for which the city is famous.
Museum Closed!
The Ulster Museum is currently undergoing major renovation and will be closed until 2009.
The Natural History section is the base of the Habitas Programme, designed to deliver information and life-long education about the natural world. Supporting this are imaginative exhibitions of selected items from the combined collection of Northern Ireland museums, which comprises over half a million minerals, rocks, fossils, plants and animals.
This is a wonderful and very exciting museum for kids, with regular events, trails and quizzes and, on the last Sunday of each month a "Backpack Day", when kids can choose from a selection of free backpacks, each filled to the brim with well thought out games, art materials, puzzles, activities and guides which bring the collections alive for them.
Visiting the Ulster Museum
The museum is open all year, from 10am to 5pm Monday-Friday, 1pm to 5pm on Saturday and 2pm - 5pm on Sundays.
Allow at a minimum of two hours for a visit, there really is a lot to see!
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