Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum is the largest museum in the Northern Ireland area. It is located in the Belfast Botanical Gardens and contains objects from many different fields, including archeology, local history, botany and zoology. We will find here stories about Ireland and about distant corners of the world.

The museum was founded in 1821 and is part of the complex of National Museums of Northern Ireland. Once it was in a completely different building, to the current one - designed by James Cumming Wynne - was moved in 1929. Collections have been expanded and developed since the inception, among which the most important are collections of Irish birds, mammals, insects, molluscs, marine invertebrates, flowering plants, algae and lichen, as well as an archive of books and manuscripts relating to Irish natural history. Interesting attractions that attract tourists to the Ulster Museum include: the ancient Egyptian mummy Takabuti, Peter the polar bear, and dinosaur skeletons.