Ulster Museum re-opens

As mentioned back in August, the Ulster Museum re-opens today after its extended and expensive (£17million), and controversial, renovation – 80 years on from the original building’s official opening in 1929. The BBC reports here and, from their slideshow, it’s claimed that “Even though the exterior may look the same..” Does that mean the battle over “one of the glories of Modernism” was won? And have all those borrowed items been returned?Here’s a video of the work in progress in April


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