Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum

The Ulster Museum is located in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens. Established in 1929, it was closed for three years between 2006 and 2009 and reopened in 2009. As part of the National Museums Northern Ireland, it is the largest museum in Northern Ireland.

The Ulster Museum boasts an exhibition area of up to 8,000 square meters, housing collections that include fine art, applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local Belfast heritage, ancient coins, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology, and geology. The museum’s collections feature significant specimens of Irish birds, mammals, insects, mollusks, marine invertebrates, flowering plants, seaweed, and lichens. Additionally, it holds books and manuscripts related to Ireland’s natural history. The museum’s personal collections are also highly captivating, featuring the holotype specimen of the Emperor Penguin, the skeleton of a European dwarf elephant, Egyptian mummies, a thylacine specimen, a passenger pigeon specimen, and a yellow-billed cuckoo specimen, among others.

Ulster Museum

Why Go: The largest museum in Northern Ireland

Continent where the attraction is located: Europe【Europe】

Country/Region where the attraction is located: Britain[Britain]

Province/State where the attraction is located: Belfast City Council [Belfast City Council]

City where the attraction is located: Belfast [Belfast]