🤝 During the lead-up and aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, ICOM UK has reached out to colleagues in Jamaica and across the Caribbean to offer support. Our thoughts are with those impacted. Please read our full statement and find out what you can do to support humanitarian aid.#icomuk

🌿 Call for Papers | Oxford 2026 Conference Theme: Museums as Spaces of Healing Museums can emotionally, culturally, and socially heal. How do they achieve this? 🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK

The Ulster Folk Museum in Co Down has used its archive of history gathered from local people to bring the old Samhain traditions to life.

Don't forget to buy tickets for our conference! Find out more about how DNA is shaping recording with National Museums NI and the NI Moth Records Committee! 🦋🧬 Book tickets at: nationalmuseumsni.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...

🐶 Taking a photo with your pet? Not a modern concept! 🐾 Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'animals', so here's a selection of three paintings from our collection with the most adorable dogs! #UlsterMuseum #Art #Portraiture #Dogs #Puppies @artukdotorg.bsky.social

We are Hiring! ❗️ We are looking for a full-time Data Validation Officer 🐌🌼🐞 For more information and to apply, please visit: ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web... Closing Date: 14th of September, 2025 #natureconservation #conservationjobs #wearehiring #NIJobs #jobsearch

It is 10 years since we launched our searchable online Conflict Textiles archive. This helps us in promoting the collection, building our networks and connecting to our communities. Thanks to CAiN @ulsteruni.bsky.social for developing and maintaining the site. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...

Go behind the loom with our weaver Roisin as she shares about the craft of linen weaving and her journey of learning how to use a loom → bit.ly/4fCrDe8 #HeritageSkills

Called into the fun and fabulous ‘Build a Miniature Museum’ summer craft activity @ulsterfolkmuseum.org today - loved spotting familiar buildings and animals. Next week is your last chance to get involved!

🐱This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Welsh art and artists’ to celebrate the exhibition ‘From the Collection’ opening at Oriel Môn this weekend. What better artwork to share than ‘Cat’ by Pembrokeshire-born Gwen John! #UlsterMuseum #Cat #Cath

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is abstract art, and who else to feature but #MainieJellett? Born in Dublin, she studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and Westminster School of Art in London, later moving to Paris. By 1923 she was painting in a completely abstract, Cubist-inspired style.

Stunning images by Julian Friers of extinct and lost Irish animals from #Megaloceros, #Mammoth, to Great Auk, with the full story of Ireland’s ice age animals and human impacts on the fauna by Mike Simms. Published by National Museums Northern Ireland August 2025 ISBN 0-900761-69-5

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Thanks for sharing your abstract and non-figurative artworks 🙌 Next week is religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute 'Painting' by Mainie Jellett (1897–1944) 📷 @ulstermuseum.org

Lovely to meet the two newest recruits @ulsterfolkmuseum.org today 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

Beulah Oluwadamilola Abu, an MA graduate in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies @ulsteruni.bsky.social, has conducted research on the Ibeji figures from Nigeria in our World Cultures collection. Read her insights into their deep cultural and spiritual significance → bit.ly/457yMy1

Happy #Pride, Belfast! To celebrate, we want to share 'Fear', 'The Shame' and 'Chaps' from the series 'The Glamour Boys' (2024) by Simon Dredge.   'The Glamour Boys' celebrates #LGBTQHistory and those who helped pave the way for equal rights.   #UlsterMuseum #BelfastPride #Art © Simon Dredge

Gorgeous Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone exhibition @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social - just forgot to get a picture of our @ulstermuseum.org Mainie Jellett reproduced on the famous steps!

Lovely to have a day off in Dublin, with various stops along the cultural spectrum from @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social 🎨to MOLI 📕 to the new ‘Museum of Curiosities’👺 and a long lazy lunch in Hugo’s 🍷 🧀 🇮🇪

Really must get to work……

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer ☀ 🕶 Northern Ireland is finally warming up in time for the long weekend. For many of us, that means an afternoon lounging in Ormeau Park. 🎨 'Horseshoe Flower Bed in Ormeau Park, Belfast' (c.1910) by Hans Iten, captures the lovely scenes ahead of us.

Loving the beautiful native orchids growing wild outside our offices @ulsterfolkmuseum.org @cedar-ni.bsky.social

I got an enquiry from a US academic about an exhibition held in Belfast in 1935. We had the catalogue in our archive. Who knew the Belfast Museum & Art Gallery @ulstermuseum.org were so forward thinking! #WaltDisney

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Spot the difference, the sea in NI and the sea in Croatia over the last 2 weeks 😊

How do you meaningfully connect museums internationally? That's the question Stephen Hilton and I are exploring for ICOM UK and the British Council. Let us know what you think! uk.icom.museum/how-do-you-m... @britishcouncil.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

A Farm in a Wooded Landscape (1630) by Dutch artist Jan van Goyen (1596 - 1656). This new acquisition significantly strengthens the Ulster Museum’s small, but increasingly important, collection of 17th century Dutch paintings. Purchased in 2024 with the assistance of the Esmé Mitchell Trust.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is wildlife and the environment for Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future @ulstermuseum.org‬ 🦌🌿 The exhibition features over 50 paintings by renowned wildlife painter, Julian Friers Julian Friers (b.1956) 📷 National Museums NI

Trogir by night 🇭🇷

While working on the #NIPrisonServiceCollection, Rebecca Laverty, Curator of Modern History, discovers a fire extinguisher with "IRA" scratched into the side. Watch our videos on this documentation project here → bit.ly/43Y4Cwq #UlsterMuseum #BehindTheScenes #TroublesAndBeyond

Day 2 of our 2025 conference on Curating Communities (#SHCG2025) is exactly one week away! Speakers will include @vmillar.bsky.social‬ from National Museums Northern Ireland and Catherine Newley from @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social‬ & we'll travel virtually from Gdansk to India & Pakistan. Book at

Seems to be a day for sunbathing here. Alright for some….

Excited to welcome our lovely friends from @ourmoh.bsky.social to @ulstermuseum.org today

Happy #SussexDay to all who celebrate!

"There ant no place like Sussex, Until ye goos above, For Sussex will be Sussex, And Sussex wunt be druv." - W Victor Cook Happy Sussex Day everyone! 📷 Simon Grinyer 📍 Fulking Escarpment #SouthDowns #SussexDay

New Exhibition | Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others An exhibition of rarely seen artworks by internationally important Japanese war photographer #AkihikoOkamura, documenting his relationship with Ireland during the Troubles. Now on display in Art Gallery 4. #UlsterMuseum #NorthernIreland

Queenie is not happy about the heavy rain tonight…

I obsess over the peonies from my garden each year, brief but beautiful

CEDaR’s Guide to Biological Recording🎥📝 We've created a fun video for you! Enjoy & share with anyone interested in recording species🔎🌼🦀🐝🌿🐬🍄 More questions: [email protected] 📧 Thanks to the Museum’s Digital Content Team for putting together this video👏

We've been working with the Woodland Trust to restore our woodlands. This #WorldEnvironmentDay, go behind-the-scenes at the #UlsterFolkMuseum and learn about the work we're doing to save our heritage landscapes 🌳 bit.ly/Woodland-Restoration #WoodlandRestoration #Sustainability #AncientWoodland

#ArtofthePossible celebrates 10 years of collecting contemporary applied art at the #UlsterMuseum This exhibition looks at how artists in mediums like glass, ceramics, metals and wood have pushed their art in ways that could never have been predicted a mere century ago. On display in Art Gallery 3

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, join @annemillarstewart.bsky.social in exploring the themes of climate emergency, extinction and migration. With the return of the Albert Bridge murmurations and the arrival of ring-necked parakeets, we don't need to look far to see humanity's impact on the environment.

Conwy sights 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏰

Giant's Causeway visitors urged not to jam coins into iconic rocks www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely loved Bodnant Gardens and have to admit the laburnum arch was stunning (even though I have PTSD from growing up in the 80s and being warned it was deadly poisonous)

Not sure if the inmates have been trying to escape, or just catching flies… 🐾

And last but definitely not least the @ulstertransportmuseum.org you can follow here 👇🏻

Now @ulsterfolkmuseum.org is on here too, give them a follow 👇🏻

Fabulous views from the @ulstermuseum.org today - Botanic Gardens looking gorgeous in the sunshine

And @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org too 👏