Great Days Out for Groups - Discover Northern Ireland

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GARDENS • CULTURE • LITERATURE • LOCAL History • MYTHS & LEGENDS • HeritaGE • CHRISTIAN HERITAGE • CREATIVE • NATURE • ACTIVETransport In The Age Of SteamExplore how people travelled around Ireland before the car took over and experience allthings Titanic in a fascinating exhibition at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.Arrive at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum 1 and start your day with tea or coffee anda freshly baked scone in the Midland Tearoom, a re-creation of a traditional Ulster railwaystation café of the early 20th century. Enjoy the majesty of the steam trains that connectedIreland in the Irish Railway collection. Climb on board the engines, marvel at the comfortof the first class carriages and contrast this with the bracing atmosphere of the basic thirdclass carriages.Explore the trains and trams shipyard workers would have travelled on to the Harland andWolff Shipyard. Visit TITANICa: The Exhibition and find out why Titanic and her sister shipswere built in Belfast. Discover original artefacts recovered from the Atlantic, see the originalplans of the ship and hear the stories from the shipyard workers, passengers and crew.Explore vintage cars, bikes, buses and trams in the Road Transport Gallery including thefamous locally built DeLorean car. Enjoy a traditional Irish stew and fresh wheaten breadlunch in the Midland Tearoom before a gentle stroll down to the Land, Sea and Sky galleries,where you will uncover the stories of individuals and businesses from Northern Irelandwho have made astonishing achievements through transport.TO BOOK CONTACTPatrick McLain or Pauline Carey, National Museums Northern Ireland T: (028) 9042 8428E: patrick.mclain@nmni.com or pauline.carey@nmni.com W: www.nmni.comVisit contact1Ulster Folk AndTransport MuseumBangor Road, Cultra,Holywood, Co. Down,BT18 0EU.(028) 9042 8428WHILE YOU’RE in THE AREAEating Out - Cultra Inn at the Culloden Hotel; Crawfordsburn Inn; Dickson’s Garden Centre.Retail therapy - Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Gift Shop; Dickson’s Garden Centre;Crawfordsburn Craft Shop.Extending your visit - Crawfordsburn Country Park; Ulster Museum; Bangor Castle Walled Garden.your day outAt a glance5-6HOURS114For additional information and more group day visit ideas, please visitdiscovernorthernireland.com/groupsUlster Folk And Transport Museum
GARDENS • CULTURE • LITERATURE • LOCAL HISTORY • MYTHS & LEGENDS • HERITAGE • CHRISTIAN HERITAGE • CREATIVE • NATURE • ACTIVETextiles Through The AgesDiscover the rich history of textiles in Ulster, browse through a draper’s shop from theearly 1900s and enjoy a vast array of domestic textiles including beautiful quilts madefrom mill remnants.Arrive at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum 1 and start your day with tea or coffeeand a freshly baked scone in the plush Ballycultra Tearoom, whose interior is based on thedining room of an Edwardian Hotel. Explore Ballycultra and discover Ulster’s rich textilehistory – the cottages lived in by mill workers and shipyard workers in Tea Lane, the beautifulpatchwork quilts made by gaslight using factory remnants from the mill. In Cluan Placediscover the art of dressmaking, embroidery and patchwork in the dressmaker’s house.In Sloan’s Draper Shop you get a real feel for an early 1900s store complete with fullyoperational thread loom in a back room. In the Rectory you can see printed cotton bedcurtains, crotched and knitted bedcovers and an intricate patchwork quilt. The maid’s roomin the bank house has a typical domestic uniform, while the laundry shows where the maidwould have spent a lot of time caring for the textiles in the house. A Donegal carpet, basedon an original 1900s design, adds colour to the sitting room.After your textile discovery, enjoy a traditional lunch in the Ballycultra Tearoom and spendthe afternoon exploring the rest of the Folk Park, visiting the transport museum or head toBangor for a little retail therapy.TO BOOK CONTACTPatrick McLain or Pauline Carey, National Museums Northern Ireland T: (028) 9042 8428E: patrick.mclain@nmni.com or pauline.carey@nmni.com W: www.nmni.comVisit contact1Ulster Folk AndTransport MuseumBangor Road, Cultra,Holywood, Co. Down,BT18 0EU.(028) 9042 8428WHILE YOU’RE in THE AREAEating Out - Cultra Inn at the Culloden Hotel; Crawfordsburn Inn; Dickson’s Garden Centre.Retail therapy - Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Gift Shop; Bangor Town Centre;The Flagship Shopping Centre.Extending your visit - Art Gallery at Clandeboye Estate; North Down Museum;Bangor Castle Walled Garden.your day outAt a glance6-7HOURS116For additional information and more group day visit ideas, please visitdiscovernorthernireland.com/groupsUlster Folk And Transport Museum
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