The best museums in Northern Ireland

Titanic Belfast Belfast

Titanic Belfast is a museum in Belfast. The museum features exhibits related to: industry, maritime and social history.

Ulster Museum Belfast

Ulster Museum is a museum in Belfast. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, photography, weapons and war, science and technology, natural sciences, costume and textiles, archives, world cultu...

Dunluce Castle Portrush

W5 Belfast

W5 is a museum in Belfast. The museum features exhibits related to: natural sciences and science and technology.

Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre Bushmills

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Holywood

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum is a museum in Holywood. The museum features exhibits related to: photography, architecture, music, fine art, decorative and applied art, costume and textiles, agriculture, scie...

Ulster American Folk Park Omagh

Ulster American Folk Park is a museum in Omagh. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, medicine, costume and textiles, maritime, architecture, land transport, agriculture, archives and persona...

Carrickfergus Castle Carrickfergus

A striking feature of the landscape from land, sea and air, Carrickfergus Castle greets all visitors with its strength and menace. It represents over 800 years of military might. Besieged in turn by the Scots,...

Castle Ward Strangford

Explore this 332-hectare walled demesne dramatically set overlooking Strangford Lough and see the quirky mid Georgian mansion, home of the Ward family since the 16th century. An architectural curiosity, it is b...

Mount Stewart Newtownards

Tower Museum Londonderry

Tower Museum is a museum in Derry. The museum features exhibits related to Personalities, Science and Technology, Fine Art, Music, Maritime, Social History, Archives, Coins and Medals, Decorative and Applied Ar...

Florence Court Enniskillen

Exploris Portaferry

The Northern Ireland Aquarium was opened by Ards Borough Council in 1987 to enable the public to view the amazingly diverse marine life that exists around these islands. The conservation village of Portaferry...

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Armagh

The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium offers visitors a unique experience which makes it "the place for space". In the Planetarium’s Digital Full Dome Theatre you can sit back, relax and experience the wonder...

Castle Coole Enniskillen

Castle Coole is a neo-classical house in Ireland, built to impress by the first Earl of Belmore 1789- 97 and is surrounded by a landscape park on the edge of Enniskillen. Contrasting to the splendour of the hou...

Saint Patrick Centre Downpatrick

Saint Patrick Centre is a museum in Downpatrick. The museum features exhibits related to Personalities and Religion.

Metropolitan Arts Centre Belfast

The MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) is Belfast’s new arts venue. Selecting, creating and mixing up music, theatre, dance and art – bringing local and international talent under one roof.

The Argory Dungannon

The Argory is a museum in Dungannon. The museum features exhibits related to: fine art, social history, costume and textiles, decorative and applied art and archives.

Somme Museum Newtownards

Somme Museum is a museum in Newtownards. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, archives, weapons and war, costume and textiles and personalities.

Down County Museum Downpatrick

Down County Museum is a museum in Downpatrick. The museum features exhibits related to Archaeology, Coins and Medals, Maritime, Social History, Land Transport, Archives, Weapons and War, Fine Art, Decorative an...

Downpatrick and County Down Railway Downpatrick

Downpatrick and County Down Railway is a museum in Downpatrick. The museum features exhibits related to: archaeology, archives and land transport.

Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum Lisburn

Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum is a museum in Lisburn. The museum features exhibits related to Decorative and Applied Art, Archives, Personalities, Social History, Natural Sciences, Archaeology, Fine Art...

Downhill Demesne and Hezlett House Castlerock

Springhill Moneymore

Springhill is an atmospheric 17th-century ‘plantation’ home. The house tour takes in the library, Conyngham family furniture, gun room, nursery, resident ghost and the unusual and colourful costume exhibition w...

North Down Museum Bangor

The Heritage Centre exists to reflect, promote and protect North Down's historical, archaeological, artistic and cultural heritage. Its services will ideally cater for the widest possible cross-section of the l...

Crom Visitor Centre Enniskillen

Escape to this breathtaking 810-hectare demesne, set amid the romantic and tranquil landscape of Upper Lough Erne. One of Ireland's most important nature conservation areas, Crom's ancient woodland and pictures...

Royal Ulster Rifles Museum Belfast

The museum houses an extensive collection of uniforms, badges, medals and regimental memorabilia covering the history of the Regiment and the campaigns in which it has fought since its formation in 1793.

Carrickfergus Museum Carrickfergus

Headhunters Barber Shop and Railway Museum Enniskillen

Museum of Orange Heritage Castlereagh

The Museum of Orange Heritage, Schomberg House, aims to educate, encourage understanding, address negative perceptions and build confidence with all those that come to visit. This site focuses on the history...

Sentry Hill Historic House and Visitor Centre Glengormley

Sentry Hill Historic House and Visitor Centre is a museum in Newtownabbey. The museum features exhibits related to Fine Art, Archaeology, Weapons and War, Archives, Social History, Decorative and Applied Art an...

Armagh County Museum Armagh

Armagh County Museum is a museum in Armagh. The museum features exhibits related to Land Transport, Natural Sciences, Fine Art, Weapons and War, Social History, Archaeology, Coins and Medals, Decorative and App...

Gray's Printing Press Strabane

An 18th-century printing press, where John Dunlap, the printer of the American Declaration of Independence, and James Wilson, grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson, learnt their trade. There is a collection o...

Newry and Mourne Museum Newry

Newry and Mourne Museum is a museum in Newry. The museum features exhibits related to: costume and textiles, archaeology, maritime, archives and social history.

Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum Armagh

Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum is a museum in Armagh. The museum features exhibits related to: weapons and war, costume and textiles and archives.

Ardress House Portadown

Ardress House is a museum in Portadown. The museum features exhibits related to: decorative and applied art and social history.

FLAME! the Gasworks Museum of Ireland Carrickfergus

FLAME. the Gasworks Museum of Ireland is a museum in Carrickfergus. The museum features exhibits related to: science and technology, industry and archives.

Armagh Observatory Armagh

Armagh Observatory is a museum in Armagh. The museum features exhibits related to Science and Technology.

Whitehead Railway Museum Whitehead

Take a journey through the history of Irish railways at Whitehead Railway Museum. The museum showcases the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s large collection of heritage locomotives and carriages, ma...

The Inniskillings Museum Enniskillen

The Inniskillings Museum is a museum in Enniskillen. The museum features exhibits related to: land transport, architecture, photography, archaeology, fine art, social history, natural sciences, coins and medals...

Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Rangers Centre Carrickfergus

Larne Museum and Arts Centre Larne

Larne Museum and Arts Centre is a museum in Larne. The museum features exhibits related to: literature, industry, archaeology, land transport, weapons and war, archives, toys and hobbies, music, sport, agricult...

Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum Belfast

Situated in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter beside St Anne’s Cathedral, the War Memorial is an Accredited Museum which is a especially interesting for anybody with an interest in Northern Ireland’s role in t...

Mid-Antrim Museum Ballymena

Mid-Antrim Museum is a museum in Ballymena. The museum features exhibits related to: literature, fine art, music, trade and commerce, archives, land transport, archaeology, costume and textiles, agriculture, re...

Sheelin Irish Lace Museum Bellanaleck

Sheelin Irish Lace Museum is a museum in Enniskillen. The museum features exhibits related to Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles and Social History. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum i...

Fermanagh County Museum Enniskillen

Fermanagh County Museum is a registered museum, under the MLA Accreditation Scheme for museums in the United Kingdom.The museum is located within and around the historic Enniskillen Castle and was established i...

Palace Stables Heritage Centre Armagh

Palace Stables Heritage Centre is a museum in Armagh. The museum features exhibits related to: religion, weapons and war and social history.

Ballycastle Museum Ballycastle

Ballycastle Museum is a museum in Ballycastle. The museum features exhibits related to Fine Art, Social History and Decorative and Applied Art.

Derrymore House Bessbrook

Derrymore House is a late 18th-century thatched house in gentrified vernacular style.