The Virtual Museum is open…
Welcome to the Virtual Museum
The Covid-19 pandemic forced the Museum to close its doors in late March 2020. It was time to stay at home, and practice social distancing.
Although the Museum building closed, the museum service remained open to online visitors. The Museum went digital. It became the #VirtualMuseum.
Visit this page and our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) and enjoy:
- Local history and stories
- Collections..lots and lots, with highlights from the Museum’s store
- Free teaching and educational resources
- Photographs and Videos
- Virtual tours
- Activities for everyone
- Live Q&As
- ..and much more!
The shamrock and red hand: a Barbour trade mark
Product label, William Barbour & Sons Ltd. (LMILC.1998.44.9, gifted) [...]
Hilden School Refurbishment and Reinvigoration Delivery Phase 2024-27
Do you want to know more about the Refurbishment and [...]
Maria Pirrie Gordon (1842-1921)
Maria Pirrie Gordon (1842-1921). Oil on canvas by Frank McKelvey [...]
Book: The cotton famine of 1862-’63, by Hugh McCall
Hugh McCall, The cotton famine of 1862-'63 [...]
Lisburn’s Miss Leap Year, 1964
Ulster Star, 22 February 1964 In 1964, a group of [...]
Photo: Warren View, Lisburn
Warren View, Hillsborough Road, Lisburn, c. 1960s (ILC&LM Collection) Thank [...]
Post card: a wartime sweetheart in Annahilt
This Virtual Museum post is by Cameron Gilchrist, a student [...]
Ferguson Radio, 1956
Ferguson radio, model 383A, 1956 (LMILC.2018.395, donated 2018) This radio [...]
The Rolls-Royce factory, Dundonald
Rolls-Royce factory, Dundonald, shortly before closing in 1977 (Belfast News-Letter, [...]
Photo: Do you recognise this terrace?
Terraced houses, unknown location, c. 1950s (ILC&LM Collection) We are [...]
Lisburn cotton weavers’ address to A. T. Stewart, 1863
A. T. Stewart's residence, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, Manhattan, [...]
The Grain Market at Smithfield, part 3: one last chime
Lisburn historian, Fred Kee, ringing the old Grain Market bell, [...]
Robert Burns (1759-96) and his brief career in ‘lint’
Robert Burns, by Samuel Cousins, 1830, after Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 [...]
Photo: guess the year and location …
Royal Hillsborough, junction of Main Street and Ballynahinch Street, 1924. [...]
Winter Talks Programme 2024
We are delighted to announce our Winter Talks Programme for [...]
The Grain Market at Smithfield, part 2: meetings galore!
Ordnance Survey map, second edition (1846-62), showing in the top [...]
‘Snow Snap’: guess the year and location
Smithfield Street looking towards Market Street, Lisburn, 1951 (ILC&LM Collection)
Photo: The Grain Market at Smithfield
Smithfield has been a market-trading location in Lisburn as far [...]
‘Oh, you fierce little man!’: Jack Frost, 1905
The following poem was published in the Lisburn Standard newspaper [...]
Back to school: Largymore, c. 1906
Largymore New National School, Lisburn, c. 1906 (Margaret Hanthorne Collection, [...]