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Guest speaker Michael Burns, Research Officer at the Northern Ireland War Memorial (NIWM), will visit Newry and Mourne Museum on Thursday 8 May at 2pm to talk about how VE & VJ were celebrated across County Down

Family arts and crafts at Newry and Mourne Museum just in time for Easter 2025

The development of the Great Northern Hotel in Warrenpoint

'From the Basin to the Bar', a talk at Newry and Mourne Museum is a photographic journey on our local waterways.

Music, workshops and playing with clay on St. Patrick's day all at Newry and Mourne Museum.

Stand and deliver! The story of two highwaymen 

Newry and Mourne Museum has arranged tours of the Castle and the galleries and bread making demonstrations, in keeping with the rich heritage of the building.

As part in Iúr Cinn Fleadh, the annual traditional Irish music and community festival in Newry, Newry and Mourne Museum will host guest musicians over the Bank Holiday weekend

To mark the 80^th anniversary of the D-Day landings, two service uniforms worn by local men during World War Two, have now gone on display in Newry and Mourne Museum.

In the latest blog in our series about the Gaol, Down County Museum looks at how the Old Gaol was used after the New Gaol was built in Downpatrick

Lecture. ‘Irish Regiments & 'The Longest Day'  at Newry and Mourne Museum

Arts and crafts for children and footage of old Newry