Ulster Museum
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Ulster Museum exterior, 2013 | |
Former name | Belfast Municipal Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Established | 1929 |
| Location | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Type | Multidisciplinary museum |
| Visitors | 492,689 (2019) |
| Executive director | Kathryn Thomson |
| Chairperson | Gordon Milligan OBE |
| Architect | James Cumming Wynnes (Original building) Francis Pym (Brutalist extention) |
| Website | www.nmni.com/our-museums/ulster-museum/ |
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology and geology. It is the largest museum in Northern Ireland, and one of the components of National Museums Northern Ireland.