{"id":106328,"date":"2025-05-16T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106328\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:06:15","slug":"nis-hidden-treasures-inside-the-small-and-quirky-museums-that-celebrate-our-history-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106328\/","title":{"rendered":"NI\u2019s hidden treasures: Inside the small and quirky museums that celebrate our history and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From Derry to Downpatrick, these spots celebrate our history, preserve our local culture and connect us to the past\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/56e6d71c-7541-452d-91f6-8d025bd8ad43.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We all know and love the larger museums of Northern Ireland. Who hasn\u2019t whiled away an afternoon at the Ulster Museum (hello mummy!) or taken a school trip to the Folk and Transport Museums? But we also have some hidden historical gems which are just waiting to be unearthed.\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Located in Glenfada Park in the Bogside, this museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Derry from 1968 to 1972, detailing the civil rights movement, internment, Bloody Sunday and more. With an archive in excess of 20,000 items related to this period, the museum not only looks back, but aims to inspire others in their struggles for civil and human rights. They describe it as \u201ca living space\u201d, and in today\u2019s modern world its poignancy and necessity cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Derry to Downpatrick, these spots celebrate our history, preserve our local culture and connect us to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,779,1817,1384,1248,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-106328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-armagh-news","10":"tag-derry-news","11":"tag-down-news","12":"tag-fermanagh-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-tyrone-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114517664962960091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}