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Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

Address: 163 Bangor Rd., 16 km (10 mi) northeast of Belfast on A2, Cultra
Phone: 028/9042-8428
www.nmni.com

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Belfast

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Fodor's Review:

Devoted to the province's social history, the excellent Ulster Folk and Transport Museum vividly brings Northern Ireland's past to life. First, the Folk Museum invites you to visit Ballycultra—a typical Ulster town of the early 1900s—which comes alive thanks to costumed guides who practice such regional skills as lace making, sampler making, spinning, weaving, wood turning, forgework, printing, open-hearth cooking, carpentry, basket making, and needlework. The setting is evocative: a score of reconstructed buildings moved here from around the region, including a traditional weaver's dwelling, terraces of Victorian town houses, an 18th-century country church, a village flax mill, a farmhouse, and a rural school. Across the main road (by footbridge) is the beautifully designed Transport Museum, where exhibits include locally built airplanes and motorcycles, as well as the iconoclastic car produced by former General Motors whiz kid John DeLorean in his Belfast factory in 1982. A miniature railway runs on Saturday. The museum is on the 70 acres of Cultra Manor, encircled by a larger park and recreation area.

Cost: £7
Open: Mar.-June, weekdays 10-5, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 11-6; July-Sept., Mon.-Sat. 10-6, Sun. 11-6; Oct.-Feb., weekdays 10-4, Sat. 10-5, Sun. 11-5

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