11 Facts About Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum was founded as the Belfast Natural History Society in 1821 and began exhibiting in 1833.

Since the 1940s the Ulster Museum has built up a good collection of art by modern Irish, and particularly Ulster-based artists.

In 1998, the Ulster 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.

Ulster Museum reopened in October 2009, eighty years to the day since its original opening.

Ulster Museum has galleries covering the history of Northern Ireland from the earliest times to the very recent past, collections of art, mostly modern or ethnographic, historic and contemporary fashion and textiles, and holds exhibitions.

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Herbarium in the Ulster Museum, is based on specimens from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society ; the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club ; the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery and the herbarium of the Botany Department of The Queen's University, Belfast acquired in 1968.

Little information about the Irish flora before 1830 is available, the oldest specimen in the Ulster Museum is an alga: Batrachospermum moniliforme collected in 1798 by John Templeton, other specimens of Batrachospermum, originally incorrectly identified as Thorea ramoissima were collected by John Templeton in 1815 from a "boghole" in Co.

Ulster Museum's declared aim immediately after the bombing was to try to replace the lost collection as soon as possible.

Since 1984 the Ulster Museum has acquired both International Designer Outfit, High Street Outfit every year.

Ulster Museum holds work by most important 20th century Paris designers and very many post-war English and Irish designers.

Ulster Museum acquired in 1971 Spanish Armada artefacts from the galleass Girona, which sank off Ireland in 1588.