Museums
Nearby, set in the beautiful botanic gardens, is the Ulster Museum. The biggest museum in Northern Ireland boasts an extensive art collection, a history of the troubles exhibition, an Egyptian Mummy, treasures from a Spanish armada ship that sank off the coast and a natural history collection. It's free to get in and has a beautiful gift shop for souvenirs. Ten minutes drive away is Cultra Folk and the Transport Museum, which is well worth a visit to look at how we used to live here. It is also reachable by train. Check out the Titanic, HMS Caroline and Nomadic down at the Titanic quarter for some Maritime history and visit The Friend at Hand, a mini whiskey museum inside for whiskey connoisseurs.
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology and geology. It is the largest museum in Northern Ireland, and one of the components of National Museums Northern Ireland.
Titanic Belfast
Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction opened in 2012, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was built.
Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. She was built to transfer passengers and mail to and from RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic. She is the only surviving vessel designed by Thomas Andrews who also designed those two ocean liners, and the only White Star Line vessel in existence today.