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#COP16 🗣️We are investing in enhanced habitat mapping and species recording, including our local biological records centre, Centre for Environmental Data and Recording @cedar__ni @COP16 @NatMuseumsNI #PeaceWithNature 🔗CEDaR: nationalmuseumsni.org/cedar

Farmers Robert and Pamela welcomed four-year-old Jessie the pony to Drumnahunshin Farm last week. The working farm at the museum plays an important role in demonstrating the way of life on a small rural farm in the 19th century. Plan your next visit → bit.ly/3BLgh7s

Calling all teachers! Have you heard about our free STEAM Studio programme? It's an exciting digital skills initiative for Key Stage 3 pupils, created with @Liberty_IT connecting coding and technology with the museum experience. Find out more here → bit.ly/3NUZMbZ

A new, temporary installation developed by @Leannemcck from @UUHistory and Tom Hulme @QUBelfast, has arrived in the museum, taking visitors back to the 1930s and the dualistic life of Co. Down diarist, David Strain. Learn more about 'The Oughley Shed' → bit.ly/3NXZfWA

We are saddened to learn of the death of artist Frank Auerbach. In 2015, we were honoured to receive ‘Head of Julia’ (1991) as part of @ace_national Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

Minister @GordonLyons1 met with representatives from @mea_bc and Result Carrickfergus Ltd to hear more about the campaign to bring the Schooner Result back to Carrickfergus. The ship is currently sited @utm_cultra and was built by renowned local shipbuilder Paul Rodgers in 1893;…

Hmm, as someone from one place living in the other I can’t say I’ve ever seen the similarity between NI and southern England…

When artist Joseph Beuys visited Ireland fifty years ago, he inspired generations of artists to organise, create and disrupt the established norms. Delve deeper into Beuys at the 'Root to Crown: A Joseph Beuys Symposium' on Monday 18th November. → bit.ly/4e0WfmW

And just like that, we close the curtain on #TheTragedyOfRichardIII. Thank you to all audiences who came to see the show putting diversity centre stage and well done to the entire team who worked endlessly to make this landmark production a possibility! LONG. LIVE. THE. KING 👑

When you’re just trying to have a peaceful shower and it turns into a scene from a horror film

Are you going 'up' to Belfast or 'down' to Belfast? It’s #WorldDigitalPreservationDay & we’re celebrating the work our teams undertake to make our collection accessible. Explore the Ulster Dialect Archive from cataloguing to digitisation → bit.ly/48zsaKh #WDPD2024

Anna Lo was typified by her courage. As a leader for the Chinese community in NI when few put their heads above the parapet. And as a trail-blazing politician who, at one time, was almost alone in standing up in the Assembly for a pro-choice position. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

Chipboard replica firearm NI Prison Service Collection In 2018, @UlsterMuseum received a donation from the NI Prison Service, comprising of homemade tools & weapons, uniforms, prison art, contraband, objects modified to conceal contraband & body armour. conflictlegacy.org/national-museu…

We are appealing for information following a racially-motivated hate crime in the Roden Street area of south Belfast on Monday, 4th November. Masonry was thrown through a window into a home. A young child was left injured by shards of glass. More here: orlo.uk/xLTUF

The #PrisonServiceCollection is made up of many fascinating items. Some of these include radios and earbuds which may have been used by prisoners as listening devices in cells or compounds 📻 Explore the collection with Rebecca Laverty → bit.ly/4e1dhSQ

Please share as widely as possible - the National Museum of Ireland @NMIreland is part of the engagement sessions about the National Centre for Research and Remembrance for Survivors and persons affected by the Irish institutional systems on the following dates 1/3

The Ulster Museum has just launched a new oral history project about the Ulster Workers Strike on its website as part of its ‘Troubles and Beyond’ programme. It's an excellent resource - if you know anyone studying GSCE History let them know about it! deadcentretours.com/2024/10/31/voi…

Mire Lee ‘Open Wound’ @TateModernSW

A vertigo-inducing climb up the monument to the Great Fire of London

Bit of a murky old day in London, but still good to visit the Sky Garden