Ulster Folk Museum

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Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster. 🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future. 📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org

Marge Simpson gesturing at a loom says, 'Did you see the loom?' She took loom in high school, and goes on to weave a message for Bart that says; Hi Bart, I am weaving on a loom!
A large jug shaped like a man's head. He has a silly little smile on his face, like he has a secret. Its accession number is HOYFM.FOLKTEMP.1185.
A red booklet, with patterns of a spinning wheel and the flag of Ulster. Text reads, 'A Folk Museum for Ulster'.
A blue pamphlet decorated with illustrations of little houses. The text reads Upper Canada Village, Crysler Farm, Battlefield Park Morrisburg, Ontario.
A bright red museum pamphlet reading 'Statemuseum for folklore', with delicate white illustrations.
A cream-coloured pamphlet with an illustration of an early plough. In flowery, fancy lettering, the text reads: A Guide to the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading.
A pamphlet that reads 'Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales' at the top, with the main text reading 'Welsh Folk Museum St. Fagans'. The pamphlet is a lime-ish yellow. The main illustration is of the main building at the museum, large mansion with castle walls and trees in front. At the bottom, there are a series of illustrations of everyday objects, such as a ladel, a vase and a rug.
In the foreground of this photo, nettles are gathered in a wicker basket. The basket is outside, and we see a traditional Irish coastal landscape in the background.
A postcard from the early 1900s. A man holds his head in one hand, baffled, as if to say, 'How could I have thought the University of Galway was hiring a druid?'
A screenshot of a Bluesky thread posted by the GOAT Museum of English Rural Life that somehow starts with, 'AI this AI that no Claude has ever served a museum visitor a scone with a smile' and results in the most recent post, 'please do not bring lasers to the museum'.
A black and white photograph of a small bed, pushed up against a wall. Underneath the bed, two large pans of milk have been placed to sour, for some reason.
1800s illustration of breadsellers. One woman wearing a cloak smiles fondly at her loaves. Another woman sits beside her in front of her bread basket. She is really not feeling it, and has tied her cloak tight around her head so that her face is just peeking out to make sure we know she is unimpressed.
Celebrating the May Queen, Belfast
A cardboard Easter egg. The decoration is a creepy looking face in the middle of what might have intended to be a yolk, or a sun. The creepy face is smiling.
A woman decoractes an egg for easter, gluing little red flowers on top for texture. She sits at a table full of craft items.
A beautiful postcard from 1906 showing two hands shaking in friendship. The hands are surrounded by clover and delicate blue bunches of flowers. It has been defaced by the Digital Media team on Canva, a photo editing software, so that one hand now reads 'Ulster Folk Museum', the other reads 'Buckinghamshire Archives', and in the middle where the hands meet it says 'having cool postcards'.
A postcard showing a young couple dressed in early 1900s clothing. The caption reads: Onions: tears without grief. He - 'I was to blame'. She - 'No, no. 'Twas I.'
A delicate lace handkerchief with a border of lace, incorporating plant designs including clover.
A log with two fungi sprouting. They are two long, black, finger-shaped fungi.
Two boys carrying home potatoes during harvest. They both wear baskets on their back. Photographed near Newcastle, County Down at the coast.
An old slide photograph showing a farmhouse and the Glens of Antrim stretching out behind it.
A close up of a map's key reading 'Yin' 'Yen' 'Yan' 'Ane' 'Waan' 'Waun' 'Wonn' 'Won'