Great Days Out for Groups - Discover Northern Ireland

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