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CROWDS FLOCK TO ARMAGH COUNTY MUSEUM’S LATEST EXHIBITION
Armagh Art Club's annual exhibition attracted over 100 guests at its opening in Armagh County Museum.

Winners of the 2008 Bennetts Photographic Competition
Tuesday 20th May - Wednesday 18th June 2008

Brian celebrates his 65th birthday!
Museums and Gallery Service Warder marks a landmark birthday.

Friends of Museums visit Armagh
Over 80 Friends from all over Ireland visit the Museum as part of a week-end tour

Harvest Home and Armagh Miscellanea Index

Photographic Competition Winners 2007
Sponsored by Bennetts one hour photoshops

Letters from Killylea Primary School

Mount St Catherine's Primary school, letters and drawings.
Following a visit to the exhibition 'Celebrating the collections: 150 years of a Museum on the Mall' here are some of the letters and drawings from Mount St Catherine's primary school. Part of the craft activity associated with the trip involved making a car!

Art critics - news from Mt St Catherine's Primary School
Some thoughts on the JB Vallely art exhibition by P6 pupils from Armagh

Paintings inspire children's art work
Ulster Museum staff offer new workshops for primary schools at Armagh County Museum

Vallely art exhibition opens
Record numbers for a solo exhibition celebrated the work of Armagh born artist JB Vallely

Visit of Bulgarian Mummers to Armagh
Anyone who has visited Armagh County Museum in recent weeks to view the current mask exhibition, will have noticed the huge figure of Captain Mummer dressed in straw mask, skirt and leggings. While our own Armagh Rhymers have been instrumental in keeping alive this ancient tradition of performance, other countries also share this interest. For the very first time a group of mummers from Bulgaria set foot in Northern Ireland to perform their own special brand of mumming rituals.

The Mask exhibition - letters and drawings from Mt St Catherine's Primary School, Armagh.

Mask provides inspiration to pupil from the Royal School
One of the most striking images recently featured on the front page of the local paper, the Armagh Gazette, is a Sri Lankan devil dancer mask, currently on display as part of the Museum's exhibition - 'The Mask, myth, magic and memory'. It was this photograph that rekindled memories for Mrs Carolyn McCall whose son John had used this mask for a GCSE design project in 2002.

Craft class tackle a quilt
Having successfully mastered the art of making a St Brigid's cross ......

Mask exhibition gets television coverage
On the day before the mask exhibition opened, the Museum was packed with children from the local Armstrong and Mt St Catherine's primary schools.

The Mask: myth, magic and memory - the twins enjoy dressing up!
On Friday 7th October, three year olds Georgia and Chelsea visited the Museum to see “The Mask” exhibition along with their mum and baby brother, Gavin. Gavin holds the record to date for our youngest visitor being just one month old.

Dara Vallely's paintings feature on TV
On Friday 7th October, the day that the exhibition opened to the public brought Antaine O Donnaile, Senior Producer for the Irish Language Section of the BBC, to Armagh County Museum.

Music and mischief - mask exhibition opens!
As the Armagh Rhymers paraded down the Museum, dressed in willow masks and costume, it became clear that this was not a traditional exhibition opening.

Masks, Mardi Gras and hurricane Katrina!
Our new exhibition - The Mask: myth, magic and memory, looks at role masks play in different parts of the world, including those worn at Mardi Gras.

Workshop for Schools
The Mask: myth, magic and memory

An exhibition by Armagh County Museum

'We liked the quilts'
- thoughts and drawings from Mount St Catherine's Primary School, Armagh

Opening of Irene MacWilliam quilt exhibition
A crowd of over sixty friends and guests packed the Museum gallery for the opening of the exhibition ‘Year and Peace Quilts’, featuring Irene MacWilliam’s work.

Our day out! Impressions of the Railway Exhibition from Mullavilly Primary School
‘All Change: the social impact of the railways’ is a major touring exhibition which recently finished its run in Armagh. Many schools visited the display to hear about railway life. Here are the thoughts of Mullavilly Primary School in their own words and illustrations.

Neil takes advantage of the special offer
During the course of the All Change: the social impact of the railways exhibition, visitors are encouraged to bring their locomotives and model trains to the Museum.

Cutting of cake launches railway exhibition!
A packed gallery of local railway buffs and friends from farther afield gathered in the Museum to hear from Primrose Wilson, Chairman of the NI Heritage Lottery Committee (HLF) and Mark Kennedy, Railway Curator at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

‘All Change: the social impact of the railways’
30th September 2004 - 19th February 2005
The Museum is delighted to stage a colourful exhibition which takes visitors on a journey. Join us to look at the impact railways had on ordinary people’s lives.

Primary school sends letters and drawings to the Museum.
The last school to visit the quilting exhibition which finished in January was Aughnacloy Primary, P5& 6.

Jewellery exhibition - Anne Earls Boylan
Local dimension adds a sparkle to the exhibition - Jewels Past and Present

Jewellery exhibition - Mary Murphy
Local dimension adds a sparkle to the exhibition - Jewels Past and Present

Sparkling Exhibition opens at Armagh County Museum
If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then Armagh County Museum’s latest exhibition.

Jewels Past and Present
Objects on Display

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