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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Join me on Saturday 6th September at 11.30am for a Homes in Focus talk at Coshkib Hill Farm @ulsterfolkmuseum.org - last couple of tickets remaining! Visit: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/hom...

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Ulster American Folk Park @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org · May 16

👋 BlueSky, meet Mrs. Mellon — a symbol of courage and hope as Ulster migrants built new lives across the Atlantic. Ordinary people, extraordinary journeys. Follow us for powerful stories of Ulster migration, resilience, and connection.

🔗 ulsteramericanfolkpark.org/stories/making-mrs-mellon

Making Mrs Mellon

Our Visitor Guide, Pamela Gunn, has interpreted Mrs Mellon for multiple years. Join us on International Women's Day as we explore her story.

www.ulsteramericanfolkpark.org

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Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org · Jun 13

How do you say the number 'one'?

Across Ulster, there's more than one (pun intended) way to say it!

Our archives hold treasures like this map, which shows the different number of ways that people across 'Ulster' said the number 'one'.

#UlsterDialectArchive

A close up of a map's key reading 'Yin' 'Yen' 'Yan' 'Ane' 'Waan' 'Waun' 'Wonn' 'Won'

A view of a map with the word 'one' written at the bottom. Letters representing different ways of saying the number one dot the map.

A view of a of Northern Ireland. Letters representing different ways of saying the number one dot the map.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you for inviting us to speak today! 🙂

Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social · Jun 25

We begin day two of #SHCG2025 with @vmillar.bsky.social from National Museums Northern Ireland and Jonathan Mattison and David Cargo from the Museum of Orange History on reawakening the Hand and Pen Orange Hall at @ulsterfolkmuseum.org (www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/stories/hand...).

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Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 2 of our 2025 conference on Curating Communities (#SHCG2025) is exactly one week away! Speakers will include @vmillar.bsky.social‬ from National Museums Northern Ireland and Catherine Newley from @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social‬ & we'll travel virtually from Gdansk to India & Pakistan. Book at

SHCG Conference 2025: Curating Communities

Join us at the SHCG Conference 2025 to learn about curating community through case studies, presentations and plenty of time for questions!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · May 2

Morning views at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🫶

Donkeys relaxing in front of court tomb.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great to catch up with @rd71a.bsky.social and Geraldine from @museumsassociation.org earlier to discuss our new roles as MA Reps for Northern Ireland. Don't forget we have a Members Together event on 11th June - do come along and say hello! 👋 www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Apr 9

What a day for the animals at the Ulster Folk Museum! ☀️

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Apr 7

We have an exciting CDP studentship opportunity at the Ulster American Folk Park in partnership with Queen's University Belfast exploring Ulster immigrant life in an American city tenement, 1840-1910. For further details visit: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Mar 26

We are delighted to announce that the theme of Conference 2025 will be Perthyn, the Welsh word for Belonging 🤝

Join us in Cardiff on 7-9 Oct to discuss how ideas of community and friendship bring people together in museums.

Book by 31 March to save 10%: www.museumsassociation.org/events/confe...

Conference 2025: Perthyn - Belonging - Museums Association

Join us in Cardiff this October

www.museumsassociation.org

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Mar 8

Had a lovely day participating in the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on International Women's Day. 🙂

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Feb 28

Men's names may well be above the doors of these premises but it is the women who helped to run them and/or their households that I'll be focusing on at the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on Saturday 8th March. Catch my tours at 12pm and 2pm: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...

Picture House frontage, black and white sign.

Pub frontage, pink, cream and white sign.

Shoemaker's shop frontage, burgundy and white sign.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Feb 22

"Loved hearing how life was for the people living on the street." ❤️ It was lovely to meet lots of people with a connection to the Meeting Street Houses at the Ulster Folk Museum at today's Homes in Focus talk. 🏘️

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Feb 18

The Meeting Street Houses at the Ulster Folk Museum are scrubbing up well in advance of my Homes in Focus talk on Saturday! 👞🚲🚂 Tickets available here: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/hom...

Interior of the shoemaker's at the Ulster Folk Museum.

Interior of the bicycle shop at the Ulster Folk Museum.

Pantry of the Railway Porter's House at the Ulster Folk Museum.

Interior of the Railway Porter's House at the Ulster Folk Museum.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Feb 16

On Friday I attended a Frederick Douglass Day talk at the Ulster American Folk Park. It was very atmospheric to hear about his life whilst walking through the various exhibits.

A brick building with fanlight over the door.

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Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social · Jan 29

As we near the celebration of St Brigid's Day, it seems appropriate to remind ourselves of Bad Bridget: crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women by @elainefarrell.bsky.social & @leannemccormick.bsky.social - the subject of exhilarating exhibition
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/exhibit...

Exhibiting Bad Bridget | Irish Humanities Alliance

‘With a saturated colour palette and a focus on poor emigrant women who often found themselves on the wrong side of the law, Bad Bridget lets visitors know loud and clear she is not like other exhibit...

www.irishhumanities.com

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Jan 27

Delighted to receive a couple of copies of Plastiquarian in the post from the Plastics Historical Society, containing an article I wrote about the volunteer project at the Ulster Folk Museum to research the history of Courtaulds in Carrickfergus, supported by The Courtauld. 👚

Plastiquarian journal cover and open page featuring a photograph of a factory building, Courtaulds in Carrickfergus.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Jan 23

POV: Sitting down for tea in the parlour in the Old Rectory at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🫖 Read more about the building here: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/stories/old-.... Photo taken by our photographer.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Jan 12

Lots of inspiration at Young V&A and @thestorymuseum.bsky.social for an upcoming temporary exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park!

Display case with four child mannequins and threw fans.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Dec 20

Love these photos of Christmas Eve in Belfast from 1984! ❤️From the Ulster Folk Museum's collection. View more Christmas themed collections here: collections.nationalmuseumsni.org/pro504965

Shop window with a mannequin in a fur coat. Christmas trees in background. Jaffa Furs, Fountain Street, Belfast.

Entrance to Marks & Spencer, Royal Avenue, Belfast. Shop sign illuminated green above the door.

Street scene showing shops and Christmas shoppers. College Street, Belfast. Including Sawers deli.

Christmas shoppers crossing the road with Belfast City Hall in the background. Wellington Place, Belfast.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Dec 9

Researching Drumnahunshin Farmhouse today, which opened at the Ulster Folk Museum in 1986. Lovely to hear the donor of the house speaking about her memories of visiting it as a child and her reasons for donating it courtesy of RTÉ Archives. ♥️ www.rte.ie/archives/201...

Moving House

Mrs Gay Patterson Komich from Hillsborough, California donated her ancestral home to the Ulster Folk Museum in Cultra near Belfast, County Antrim.

www.rte.ie

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Dec 5

It may have been a rainy day at the Ulster American Folk Park but it didn't dampen the festive mood! The geese wanted to follow us into the Mellon Homestead but the half door helped to keep them outside!

Historic American street with festive window decorations.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Nov 28

Exciting to see this feathered, furry and prickly bunch earlier this week being prepared for a future exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park!

Group of taxidermy specimens in a plastic box.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Nov 27

Lovely to see new pony Jessie settling into her new life at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🐴

Looking through a window at two horses in the sun.

Looking through a window at a horse standing in the sun.

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Nov 27

Here's a model of a Large White Ulster Pig, complete with a fine layer of hair, from the Ulster Folk Museum's collection. It was last on display in 2022 at the Little Museum of Dublin. Sadly, the breed is now extinct. 😢

Museum exhibition with four display cases, one of which includes a model of a Large White Ulster Pig.

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