BELFAST.- Some of Northern Irelands best known writers and artists are taking a fresh look at the Ulster Museum’s greatest treasures to form an exciting new exhibition set to open this autumn. The project, 26 Treasures at the Ulster Museum, involves 26 writers, including poets Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Bernard MacLaverty, who have been paired with 26 visual artists, such as Peter Anderson, Ross Wilson and Sonya Whitefield, and a well-known museum artefact. The writers will now compose a 62 word response to their artefacts which include the Takabuti the Mummy, the Clonmore shrine and Bog butter. The brief they have been given is that the response can be funny, sad, prose or poetry, but always personal. They will collaborate with the artist to produce a visual and verbal response that will be exhibited at the Ulster Museum in October as part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s and Irish Design Week.