This Heritage Centre holds over 5000 artefacts dealing with the First World War. Education is central to the Centre’s aims and guided tours and education packs aimed at school goers are available. Elements of the battlefields of the War are reconstructed in a multi-media exhibition and the political background to pre war Ireland is illustrated through the use of material from the Irish and Ulster Volunteers.
There is a database of Irish fatalities of the Great War for those wishing to trace details of relatives. The Somme Association, which coordinates research into Ireland ’s part in the First World War, is based at the Centre.
233 Bangor Road,
Newtownards,
Co. Down, BT23 7PH
Tel:
Opening Times
Monday to Thursday: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Saturday and Sunday: 12.00pm to 4.00pm.