Places to visit in Belfast City

A short list of notable parks, markets, museums and landmarks in Belfast City.

• Alexandra Park, Belfast · Parks

  Alexandra Park is a Victorian park situated in north Belfast. It is named after Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was opened in 1888. As is typical for parks of the period, it has a formal layout that includes tree lined avenues. It also contains play areas for children.

• Andy Tyrie Interpretive Centre · Culture
• Belfast Asylum · Culture

  Belfast Asylum was a psychiatric hospital on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Belfast City Hall Visitor Exhibition · Culture
• Blackwater Valley Museum · Culture
• HM Prison Crumlin Road · Culture

  HM Prison Belfast, also known as Crumlin Road Gaol, is a former prison situated on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since 1996 it is the only remaining Victorian era former prison in Northern Ireland. It is colloquially known as the Crum.

• Irish Football Association Education and Heritage Centre · Culture
• Irish Republican History Museum · Culture

  The Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum, is a museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 2007 after years of campaigning by Eileen Hickey, who collected the exhibits.

• Kelvin Monument · Historic
• No Pasaran sculpture · Historic
• Oh Yeah Music Centre · Culture
• The Naughton Gallery at Queen's · Culture

  The Naughton Gallery at Queen's, also known as The Naughton Gallery, is an art gallery and museum at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Opened in 2001, the gallery is named after its benefactors, Martin and Carmel Naughton, who donated £500,000 to the university in 2002. Located on the first floor of the Queen's University's Lanyon building, the gallery displays six exhibitions per year presenting local and international contemporary artists. Among the talks and events organised in conjunction with the exhibitions, the Naughton Gallery occasionally organises screenings with the Queen's Film Theatre, which is also a cultural institution under the auspices of Queen's University.

• Ulster Museum · Culture

  The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres 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.

• Ulster Rugby Museum · Culture
• William Conor statue · Historic
• Woodvale Park · Parks

  Woodvale Park is a park in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Opened in 1888 and run by the city council, it provides a venue for association football and bowls as well as a children's play area and landscaped areas for walking. The park is home to the Peace Tree, an oak planted in 1919 to commemorate the end of the First World War, which was voted Northern Ireland's Tree of the Year for 2015. The European War Memorial honouring those from all sides killed during the First World War was unveiled in the park in 2014.

• Artcetera · Landmark
• Belfast Celtic Museum · Museum
• Catalyst Arts · Landmark
• Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum · Museum
• Francis Calder Commemorative Fountain · Attraction
• Golden Thread Gallery · Landmark
• Junction Mark · Attraction
• Lord Kelvin's Statue · Historic memorial
• May's Meadow · Park
• Northern Ireland War Memorial · Museum
• Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum · Museum
• PJ Land · Family
• Park Avenue Rooftop Garden · Park
• Peace Wall · Attraction
• Port Mark · Attraction
• RSUA Design Box · Landmark
• Starboard Mark · Attraction
• The Flatiron Belfast · Attraction
• University of Atypical · Landmark

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