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A place to inspire wonder, encourage creativity and to understand the importance of our shared humanity.

Explore the Ulster Museum and make sense of the past, the present and the future through collections of art, natural science and history.

The finest pre-1900 Irish, British and European paintings in the Ulster Museum collection.

Renaissance to Romanticism

The Expulsion (after Massaccio) (1986) Alice Maher National Museums NI Collection: Ulster Museum © the artist

Summer Solstice

Renoir's L’allée au bois hung on a green wall with dimmed light shining down on the painting, with the Chief Executive of National Museums NI, Kathryn Thomson and Senior Curator of Art, Anne Stewart standing in front of it.

This is a highly important acquisition for the Ulster Museum as it is the first Impressionist painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland.

Renoir masterpiece, L’allée au bois, acquired by National Museums NI

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Renaissance to Romanticism

Summer Solstice

Renoir masterpiece, L’allée au bois, acquired by National Museums NI

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