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Museums in Ireland
Irish Museums

Museums in Antrim.
Antrim Museums.

Museums in Belfast.

 
Ulster Museum.
 

Situated in the Botanic Gardens it's collections include contemporary international art, Irish art, Irish furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, and costume, and a display of life in Ireland over 9,000 years.

Perhaps the best known collection is the gold and silver jewelry recovered by divers in 1968 from the Spanish Armada treasure ship Girona, wrecked off the Giant's Causeway in 1588.

Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens
Belfast

Local chieftain Sorley Boy MacDonnell who lived in nearby Dunluce Castle salvaged some of the treasure from the wreck and used the proceeds to repair the castle.

 
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