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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · 13d

🐶 Taking a photo with your pet? Not a modern concept!

🐾 Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'animals', so here's a selection of three paintings from our collection with the most adorable dogs!

#UlsterMuseum #Art #Portraiture #Dogs #Puppies @artukdotorg.bsky.social

A woman in fancy 18th century clothing cradles a white dog in her arm. He appears to be snoozing.

A young boy poses for a portrait in clothes that indicate he is intended to portray a poor beggar. He stands with one arm around his dog, holding his paw in his other hand as if making his dog wave to the viewer.

A family in 19th century clothing pose for a portrait in their study. A young child reaches for a small black and white dog to give him a pat on the head.

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CEDaR @cedar-ni.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are Hiring! ❗️

We are looking for a full-time Data Validation Officer 🐌🌼🐞

For more information and to apply, please visit:
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Closing Date: 14th of September, 2025

#natureconservation #conservationjobs #wearehiring #NIJobs #jobsearch

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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · Aug 20

It is 10 years since we launched our searchable online Conflict Textiles archive. This helps us in promoting the collection, building our networks and connecting to our communities. Thanks to CAiN @ulsteruni.bsky.social for developing and maintaining the site. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...

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Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org · Aug 12

Go behind the loom with our weaver Roisin as she shares about the craft of linen weaving and her journey of learning how to use a loom → bit.ly/4fCrDe8 #HeritageSkills

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Aug 15

Called into the fun and fabulous ‘Build a Miniature Museum’ summer craft activity @ulsterfolkmuseum.org today - loved spotting familiar buildings and animals. Next week is your last chance to get involved!

Collage map showing lots of different buildings

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Aug 14

🐱This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Welsh art and artists’ to celebrate the exhibition ‘From the Collection’ opening at Oriel Môn this weekend.

What better artwork to share than ‘Cat’ by Pembrokeshire-born Gwen John!

#UlsterMuseum #Cat #Cath

A drawing with an ink wash of a cat. The cat is upright, staring intensely off the page.

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jul 31

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is abstract art, and who else to feature but #MainieJellett?

Born in Dublin, she studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and Westminster School of Art in London, later moving to Paris. By 1923 she was painting in a completely abstract, Cubist-inspired style.

A multicoloured abstract painting, showing a focal point in the centre with twists and turns of shapes emanating outward. The colours change at intersecting arcs and corneres, with blues, yellows, reds, greens, oranges and purples, all fairly dark in hue.

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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Stunning images by Julian Friers of extinct and lost Irish animals from #Megaloceros, #Mammoth, to Great Auk, with the full story of Ireland’s ice age animals and human impacts on the fauna by Mike Simms. Published by National Museums Northern Ireland August 2025 ISBN 0-900761-69-5

Book cover with painting of giant ice age deer Megaloceros

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Window box with abundant purple, yellow and pink flowers

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks for sharing your abstract and non-figurative artworks 🙌

Next week is religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute

'Painting' by Mainie Jellett (1897–1944) 📷 @ulstermuseum.org

Abstract geometric painting featuring concentric circles and arcs in shades of blue, gray, green, and purple with dotted patterns.

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Lovely to meet the two newest recruits @ulsterfolkmuseum.org today 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

Black and white kitten with a pink nose on a bed

Black and white kitten with pink nose on a traditional farmhouse chair

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jul 24

Beulah Oluwadamilola Abu, an MA graduate in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies @ulsteruni.bsky.social, has conducted research on the Ibeji figures from Nigeria in our World Cultures collection.

Read her insights into their deep cultural and spiritual significance → bit.ly/457yMy1

Two wooden figures. They have features including blue caps, necklaces, and large eyes. They are nearly identical.

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jul 26

Happy #Pride, Belfast!
To celebrate, we want to share 'Fear', 'The Shame' and 'Chaps' from the series 'The Glamour Boys' (2024) by Simon Dredge.

'The Glamour Boys' celebrates #LGBTQHistory and those who helped pave the way for equal rights.

#UlsterMuseum #BelfastPride #Art © Simon Dredge

A circular ceramic, split in half. One half has text reading “here comes the shame”; the other reads “all he cares about it love”. On the left, the out rim reads “be careful”, with the right reading “they’re watching you”. The disc is decorated in plaid patterns.

An orange circular ceramic with the words “fear eats the soul”.

A circular ceramic with a pin triangle decorating the middle. In the triangle are the words “but we bring the fun!” The triangle hides text, which we can just discern reads “those…chaps”.

The three ceramics mounted on a wall together.

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Gorgeous Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone exhibition @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social - just forgot to get a picture of our @ulstermuseum.org Mainie Jellett reproduced on the famous steps!

Visitors viewing paintings by Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett in an exhibition gallery

Screen with abstract design by Mainie Jellett

Woman sitting on a bench in a gallery surrounded by back-lit stained glass by Evie Hone

Painting of rearing and prancing horses by Mainie Jellett

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Lovely to have a day off in Dublin, with various stops along the cultural spectrum from @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social 🎨to MOLI 📕 to the new ‘Museum of Curiosities’👺 and a long lazy lunch in Hugo’s 🍷 🧀 🇮🇪

Looking down into the courtyard at the National Gallery of Ireland. Two people walking through. Grey stone building with large windows and one balcony on one side. Large wooden, abstract, spiral sculpture

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really must get to work……

Looking out fro
a patio table to pots of bamboo, potted flowers against a white wall, and a large tree. In the sunshine

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jul 10

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer ☀

🕶 Northern Ireland is finally warming up in time for the long weekend. For many of us, that means an afternoon lounging in Ormeau Park.

🎨 'Horseshoe Flower Bed in Ormeau Park, Belfast' (c.1910) by Hans Iten, captures the lovely scenes ahead of us.

A painting of a park. The grass and the trees are a lush green, while flowerbeds are vibrant blues and reds. The sky is a cool blue, with shades of yellow giving a sense of a warm day.

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 10

Loving the beautiful native orchids growing wild outside our offices @ulsterfolkmuseum.org @cedar-ni.bsky.social

Close up of a pale pink and lilac striped orchid

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Kim Mawhinney @kimcmawhinney.bsky.social · Jul 8

I got an enquiry from a US academic about an exhibition held in Belfast in 1935. We had the catalogue in our archive. Who knew the Belfast Museum & Art Gallery @ulstermuseum.org
were so forward thinking! #WaltDisney

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 6

🐈‍⬛ or 🍤?

Black cat sleeping on a green blanket, in a prawn shape

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Spot the difference, the sea in NI and the sea in Croatia over the last 2 weeks 😊

Clear blue sea breaking on a beach near scrubby trees

Clear sea on a beach looking towards an outcrop of trees and rocks with a blue door inset

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Kate Arthurs @kate-arthurs.bsky.social · Jun 28

How do you meaningfully connect museums internationally? That's the question Stephen Hilton and I are exploring for ICOM UK and the British Council. Let us know what you think! uk.icom.museum/how-do-you-m... @britishcouncil.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

How do you meaningfully connect museums internationally? - ICOM UK

That’s the question that ICOM UK and the British Council have jointly commissioned a new research project to explore. We want to find ways for museums in the UK to build stronger, more inclusive, and ...

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jun 16

A Farm in a Wooded Landscape (1630) by Dutch artist Jan van Goyen (1596 - 1656).

This new acquisition significantly strengthens the Ulster Museum’s small, but increasingly important, collection of 17th century Dutch paintings.

Purchased in 2024 with the assistance of the Esmé Mitchell Trust.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is wildlife and the environment for Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future @ulstermuseum.org‬ 🦌🌿

The exhibition features over 50 paintings by renowned wildlife painter, Julian Friers

Julian Friers (b.1956) 📷 National Museums NI

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · Jun 25

Love this 😹

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