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Museums in Belfast

No city break is complete without a dose of culture. Thankfully, as well as its many top-notch bars, restaurants and tourist attractions, Belfast has more museums than you can shake a low-cost airline ticket at.

The Mullan Gallery, located on Lisburn Road, is dedicated to working together with artists to promote their work. "We present a series of mainly Irish Art exhibitions throughout the year featuring leading and emerging artists from Ireland, both North and South, and continue our work of exhibiting artists from further afield," the museum states.

In the same vein is The Fenderesky Gallery, located in the Crescent Arts Centre near Queen's University. It exhibits the work of contemporary artists, most of them Irish, over three large rooms. Staff here are friendly and helpful, and visitors can buy art books and postcards.

Belfast City Skin Works houses a more unusual kind of museum, the Celtic and World Tattoo Museum. If you have ever wondered about the history of body art, and about its place in religious rites and even among so-called 'primitive' peoples, this collection of designs, photos, books and instruments will be enlightening. For some local colour, this exhibition offers information about the traditional Celtic form of tattooing.

For further cultural insight, try the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in County Down. Set in more than 170 acres of rolling countryside, the Folk Museum tells the story of life in Ulster in the early 20th century, and features nearly 50 exhibits. The collection at the Transport Museum ranges from horse-drawn carts to Irish built automobiles, and from steam trains to ship and aircraft building. You can see permanent exhibitions of the Titanic and the X2 Flight Experience here.

Flying to Belfast couldn't be simpler - direct flights operate from airports all around the UK including London Heathrow, London Stansted, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
15 April 2008