Folk Museum Making Festival

The Ulster Folk Museum are passionate about preserving and nurturing Northern Ireland’s unique heritage skills, customs and traditions. This August the museum will be celebrating the Folk Museum Making Festival in partnership with the Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB NI), a two-day event honouring traditional crafts & heritage skills!

Over the weekend a wide range of Ireland’s unique building traditions such as thatching, stone masonry, limewashing and drystone walling will be showcased. There’ll also be talented makers sharing their crafts including signwriting, stained glass, musical instrument making and straw rope making; and our fantastic team of in-house craft demonstrators will be working in blacksmithing, willow, textiles, wood and more!

As well as a chance to see at-risk skills in action, the museum will also be hosting a craft fair in collaboration with Craft NI, where you’ll be able to purchase works from some of the high quality craft makers and applied artists working with heritage materials to make beautiful objects, homewares and decorative pieces.

Traditional music sessions, food trucks, screenings in the original picture house will also be available, as well as activities for all ages to get stuck into. So come along and be part of the revival of treasured heritage skills.

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