Culture & Entertainment

Belfast is a city with a rich heritage, offering a host of vibrant cultural and artistic experiences - both spontaneous and structured. A love of language and artistic expression means Belfast has a packed year-round calendar of festivals and cultural events - including the world-renowned arts festivals at Queen’s University and Cathedral Quarter. A plethora of art galleries and exhibition spaces, performance venues and festivals, have stimulated and rejuvenated the Belfast arts scene making the city constantly pulsate with excitement and energy.

After a recent multi-million pound refurbishment, The Ulster Museum, set in Belfast’s beautiful Botanic Gardens, is now open to the public, packed with diverse and engaging collections of art, archeology, natural sciences and local history now displayed in state-of-the art galleries.

While the north of Ireland’s social history is literally brought to life at The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, voted Irish Museum of the Year, where you can wander at leisure around this 170-acre open air living exhibition space and visit authentic reconstructed homes, shops, pubs and churches and experience how people lived and travelled in early twentieth century Ulster.

An evening with the Ulster Orchestra is an ideal way to relax while enjoying classical favourites played to the highest calibre in stunning performance venues like the Grand Opera House, the Ulster Hall and Belfast Waterfront.

See a cornucopia of cultural delights by touring the city and beyond by open-top bus, private taxi from executive transport providers Value Cabs or even on foot, taking in the birthplace of the Titanic, evocative wall murals, Parliament Buildings, the historic Crumlin Road Gaol, the tranquillity and reverence of St Anne’s Cathedral, or the Edwardian classical renaissance splendour of Belfast’s City Hall and much more besides.

And if you prefer a more sedate approach, the Belfast Wheel in the city centre will afford you panoramic views across Belfast after which you can luxuriate in a frothy cappuccino and soak up the vibrant cafe culture and simply people watch.