Northern Ireland War Memorial

03/06/2026

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27/05/2026

Every day last week, we facilitated a dementia-friendly Reminiscence session in various locations across the country to mark , engaging with a total of 102 residents and staff.

These sessions allow older audiences the opportunity to reminisce over early childhood memories of themes such as the Belfast Blitz, the arrival of American soldiers, rationing, or VE & VJ Day. 🗣️

If you’d like to book a FREE Reminiscence workshop in a Care Home, Day Centre, or Library, contact us on:

☎️Telephone: 02890320392
📧Email: [email protected]

22/05/2026

The Northern Ireland War Memorial will be closed on Monday 25 May 2026 for the bank holiday.

We will reopen on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at 10am.

22/05/2026

There's still time to take part in 'Drawn in Wartime'! ✏️

As part of 2026, we're sharing drawings from the NIWM collection and inviting you to create your own. From practical diagrams and wartime kit layouts to humorous cartoons, market scenes and decorated objects, these drawings show how people used creativity during the Second World War to explain, observe, remember and express themselves.

Take another look at our 'Drawn in Wartime' online exhibition on Bloomberg Connects: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/northernIrelandWarMemorialMuseum and choose an image that stands out to you. Then create your own drawing inspired by wartime life, memory, feeling, or everyday experience. Your drawing can be detailed, simple, colourful, funny, thoughtful or scribbly. There is no right or wrong way to take part. 🖌️

Share your drawings with us by email, [email protected], or tag us on social media using . Selected drawings may be shared as part of a temporary online display. 🖼️

16/05/2026

This National Drawing Day, we’re sharing drawings from the Northern Ireland War Memorial collection and inviting you to create your own. ✏️

These remind us that drawing in wartime was not only about art. It could be practical, humorous, personal, or emotional. A drawing might explain a piece of equipment, capture a scene from daily life, or simply offer a moment of creativity in difficult times.

Together, they show the many ways people used drawing to observe, communicate, remember, and express themselves during the Second World War. Drawing helped people record not just war, but everyday life within it. 🪖🖌️

View our ‘Drawn in Wartime’ collection on Bloomberg Connects: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/northernIrelandWarMemorialMuseum/exhibition/e9e19bfc-2247-4fea-9c2f-3da75b45bb0d

Take a look at the images and choose one that stands out to you. Then create your own small drawing inspired by wartime life, memory, feeling, or everyday experience.

You might draw:
- a person
- an object
- a scene
- a feeling
- a moment from everyday wartime life

Share your drawing with us and tag us

15/05/2026

It’s day 3 of Balmoral Show! 🐮🐷

If you’re out enjoying the show today, come and find us at Eikon Shopping Village and Makers Market, stand 63, and learn more about Northern Ireland during the Second World War. 🐓🥚

You can also collect your weekly sweet ration or a free pen or pencil. 🍬

11/05/2026

‘Children of the Blitz’ airs tonight at 9pm on BBC2 which features some of the last people who witnessed the reality of the Blitz, with their testimony offering an intimate, enlightening and moving portrait of wartime United Kingdom through children’s eyes. These eyewitnesses include two NIWM War & Me Interviewees, Doreen McBride and the late Patsy Moneypenny, who lived in Belfast in 1941 and were deeply affected by their experiences of the air raids.

The Northern Ireland War Memorial was happy to be able to help Minnow Films ensure the experiences of the Belfast Blitz were included in 'Children of the Blitz' by introducing them to Patsy & Doreen.

For more information, please visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nhv0qh?fbclid=IwY2xjawRqbxVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETAxeDd0b3lCRVJLUUZFb01nc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHppm1vnLRpqhZ_fkASH4J_kz8zC0ouzOkUPELmpDxY2NWzdyR3dKFHTaSHNq_aem_LdA26eX40rJy7ilsYdmCYg

Some of the last people who witnessed the reality of the Blitz share their testimories.