Today we visited Ulster Folk Museum. It had a Transport
Museum too but we only visited the Folk part.
The area was laid our like a street, similar to the American Folk Park,
however there were no stories of specific people like there were in the
American one. The area was split between
urban and rural, so we started with the urban and made our way through cottages
and a number of shops before having lunch and moving on to the rural part, which
was larger in area.
I think that there may be more buildings being added,
especially to the rural part because there is so much space and potential. They definitely need to work on a few things
here - as I said, there's no narrative, no story to follow, and the worst thing
was actually all the bits and pieces we were given when we began:
Map of the whole place
Audioguide
A key to what had changed on the audioguide
A pack of cards with written information about each
building, numbered
A key to what had changed within the pack of cards,
numberwise
Most places had an information panel inside them anyway,
explaining more or less what was on the cards.
So it was annoying at first having several things to consult as we went
around, but in the end we decided to go with the information boards in the
buildings themselves as it was easier.
Overall a very interesting place to visit and it does take a whole day
to go around, although it needs work with the guidance and it needs some sort of
story to follow!
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