NORTHERN IRELAND.- National Museums Northern Ireland released more details on the major new TITANICa exhibition opening at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. TITANICa: The Exhibition will open at the world-class Transport Museum on Tuesday May 31 to m…
Winner of Historic Houses Restoration Award 2010 Announced
LONDON.- The Historic Houses Association (HHA) and Sotheby’s announced that the winning entry of their Restoration Award for 2010 – an award now in its third year – is Wilton House near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Wilton’s winning project is its …
Archiving Place & Time: Contemporary Art Practice in Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement
LONDON.- Through photographs, installations and drawings, Archiving Place & Time reveals how a new generation of contemporary artists from Northern Ireland have responded to the changed situation since the signing of the historic Good Friday/Belfast Ag…
Nobel Laureate Opens Queen’s Landmark 50 Million Pound Library
BELFAST.- One of Northern Ireland’s newest landmark buildings – the £50 million McClay Library at Queen’s – was opened today by one of Queen’s most famous alumni, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Speaking ahead of the opening, Qu…
Ulster Museum in Belfast Wins 100,000 Pound Art Fund Prize
LONDON.- The Ulster Museum, Belfast was announced by judge Kirsty Young as the 2010 winner of The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries. Praised by the judges for its all-round excellence, the museum beat three other short-listed institutions, The A…