Making the Most of Our Museum

Improvements to the Ulster Museum are required, but current proposals to alter this internationally important listed building would damage its character and conflict with listed building policy.

We must grasp this opportunity to do our best by Northern Ireland's most iconic post-war structure, making it a destination in its own right.

This site aims to demonstrate how public access and amenities can be improved by working with, rather than against, the special attributes of this unique building.

"It is an icon to a period when architecture addressed at the very centre of its responsibility,
the optimism of modern life, culture and public space." - Paul Clarke

"The question of how best to extend in a Modern idiom a building constructed in a traditional style is one that has taxed the best minds in Modern architecture throughout the world... the Ulster Museum must be amongst the most successful solutions. It is hard to point to comparable examples, where the basic lines of a classical building have been projected into an extension as a means of integrating the two... The results are entirely convincing because the extension has no doubts about itself" - DOCOMOMO-UK
[Documentation and Conservation of Buildings and Sites of the Modern Movement]
DOCOMOMO International has 42 Working Parties throughout the world.