Highlights of our Flaxie Buds Bonanza 2022
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Workshop: Women’s Suffrage – Investigation
Did you know that it wasn’t until 1918 that women over 30 were given the right to vote in the United Kingdom? It would be another 10 years before that the age for female voters would be brought down to 21 years old, the same as male voters. This wasn’t always the case though. In
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Flaxie Adventure: Up the Lagan in a Bubble
There is a saying here in Northern Ireland: “Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble?” In this adventure Flaxie heads to the Lagan Tow Path, finds some flappy friends and tries making some bubbles go down the Lagan. Before starting out on he day’s bubbley adventures Flaxie did lots of research
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Foundation Topic – Weather Matching Exercise
In this FREE downloadable resource, you can take part in one of our weather-matching exercises. These are hugely-popular workshops with our Foundation-Level visitors. This matching exercise can help with different aspects of learning. Communication, Language and literacy. Knowledge and understanding of the world. Mathematical and Development. Physical development. Print and cut out all the images
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Lisburn Museum Wellbeing: Jigsaw Puzzles for all ages
Do you have remember completeing do jigsaw puzzles when you were young? During the Covid-19 pandemic many have found it calming to complete jigsaw puzzles to unplug from social media. It can be hard to find a new jigsaw, or even the space to do it…but never fear! Lisburn Museum has created some online jigsaw
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Colour the Collection : 1938 Fire Engine
Who loves colouring in? At the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum we do! Colouring can be very theraputic, grab some coloured pencils and give it a go!
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WWII Topic – Investigating The Home Front
World War II is not just a topic on the Primary School Curriculum, but also a way to connect to the generations who came before us. At Lisburn Museum the topic of World War II is broken down into three themes, one of the themes is THE HOME FRONT. Did you know that in Lisburn
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WWII Topic – Investigating Rationing
World War II is not just a topic on the Primary School Curriculum, but also a way for us to connect with our family members who came before us. At Lisburn Museum World War II workshops are broken down into three themes. One theme is RATIONING. Did you know that in Northern Ireland rationing began
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Science: build your own bridge at home!
One of the most popular science workshops at the Museum is our BRIDGES workshop! This workshop helps demonstrate how FORCES work and how different types of bridges are created. If you would like a taster of the Bridges workshop, and try our bridge-building challenge then download the FREE workbook!
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Science: Victorian Inventions to try at home – make a string telephone!
Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), Lisburn’s landlord, lived through the Victorian era, a period of great invention and innovation. One of the most popular themes iour annual science programme is our Victorian Inventions workshop. If you would like a taster of the Victorian Inventions workshop, which includes a quiz and two fun experiments to try at
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Science: make slime at home! Tremendous transformations!
In 2017 the theme for the British Engineering and Science Week was ‘CHANGE’, and in the Museum our science programme reflected this. Through the theme of TRANSFORMATIONS we looked at human, and non-human, changes in nature. If you would like a taster of the Tremendous Transformations Workshop, then download our FREE workbook and try two
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Science: An acid and base experiment to try in your kitchen
Did you know that Lisburn Museum runs science workshops throughout the year? You can try many of these at home! We call this ‘kitchen science’, as you can find many of the items you need in your food cupboard. Did you know that you can make a a dramatic chemical reaction by mixing two common
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Ancient Egypt Topic – Create Your Own Cartouche
Museum Staff regularly run Ancient Egyptian workshops. Students learn about life in Ancient Egypt and why the Irish Linen Centre has a special artifact from the Tomb of Tutankhamen. The Ancient Egyptians wrote with an alphapbet called hieroglyphs. When they wrote a name they made an oval name plate known as a cartouche. You can
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Flaxie Buds Easter Workshop – Indoor Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts are fun indoors! Lisburn Museum and Flaxie have created a simple scavenger hunt you can try at home. There is even a blank template for you to create a hunt of your own.
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The Irish Linen Centre Growing Links with Suffolk Cross Community Group
The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum is delighted to be involved with the Suffolk Cross Community Group’s project of rediscovering a shared heritage. ‘Rediscovering Linenopolis: West Belfast’s Shared Heritage’ is in partnership with the Half Moon Lake, Grosvenor and the Plough Men’s Sheds together with Springfield Healthy Living Centre. After visiting the award
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Helen C. Jones, Reserach Librarian at The Wallace Collection, concludes our programme of events celebrating Sir Richard Wallace’s bicentenary
Thursday 11th April 2019 7pm – 9pm The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum is pleased to present Helen C. Jones, Research Librarian at The Wallace Collection. Helen concludes our programme of events celebrating Sir Richard Wallace’s bicentenary with her talk: “The great, the good and the interesting: a snapshot of late Victorian society uncovered
New performance by Philip Orr marking the end of the Great War in Lisburn
New performance by Philip Orr marking the end of the Great War in Lisburn The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum has commissioned a performance by historian and playwright Philip Orr to mark Armistice, the end of the Great War (1914-18). The premiere of the work will take place on 1st December 2018 at
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Musical Christmas Cracker at Lisburn Museum
Musical Christmas Cracker at Lisburn Museum The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum will host a musical Christmas extravaganza on 15th December 2018. The evening will feature festive music from award-winning brass band Dynamic Brass, local author and rising literary star Colin Sloan and harpist Ursula Burns. Tickets must be booked in advance and are
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Northern Ireland’s textile past, present and future: reviving the William Liddell Collection
The recent opening of two new exhibitions in The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum have been featured on Ulster University “The Shuttle & Shafts exhibition is a result of a two-year project funded by the National Lottery via the Heritage Lottery Fund and led by Senior Research Fellow Trish Belford of Ulster University to