Plans for £50m Ulster Folk Museum redevelopment

This article was first published by Museums + Heritage.

Plans for the redevelopment of Ulster Folk Museum have been submitted by its parent organisation National Museums NI to Ards and North Down Borough Council.

Expected to cost in the region of £50 million, the project at Cultra in County Down has already attracted just over £1 million support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help progress the development stage of the project.

If approved, the plans will see the creation of new learning facilities focussed on heritage and environmental conservation education.

National Museum NI said the plans will ‘reawaken’ the significance of the way of life distinctive to the people of Ulster, and the application of the way of life in tackling modern issues such as cultural diversity, wellbeing and environmental change.

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