How long do you have? Visitor Information Membership ULSTER AMERICAN FOLK PARK Not to be missed Stop and Shop What’s On Guide For those who love the museum Immerse yourself in the story of Irish emigration Old World Whether you’re looking for a gift Don’t forget to pick up a copy of our as much as we do, become a at the museum that brings it to life. Experience Mellon Homestead (9) or a souvenir of your visit, our shop What’s On guide while you are here. member to support our work and the emigrant adventure as you journey from the Campbell House (12) carries a wide range of unique It’s jam-packed with information you’ll enjoy lots of great benefits. thatched cottages of Ulster, on board a full scale Hughes House (15) products to suit all ages. There’s on all the fantastic events and Members enjoy unlimited free everything from local arts and exhibitions you can enjoy at National entry at the Ulster Folk & Transport emigrant sailing ship, to the log cabins of a new Ulster Street (18–25) crafts, children’s toys and games Museums Northern Ireland. Available Museum and Ulster American Folk homeland on the American Frontier. Meet an Ship and Dockside Gallery (26) to a variety of interesting books. at any of our visitor information Park, a discount of 10% in all our American Street (27–31) points, it’s just what you need gift shops and catering outlets, and array of costumed characters on your way with Time for Tea for planning more great days out! regular updates throughout the year. traditional crafts to show, tales to tell and food New World With all the walking around, you’ll to share. Samuel Fulton Stone House (32) surely work up an appetite. Our café You will also receive advance notice West Pennsylvania Log House (41) offers a range of wholesome meals of upcoming events and exhibitions and is the perfect spot for a cuppa. for all National Museums Northern MAP Ireland sites. This map will help you find your way around the museum What to see Please take care crossing 19. J McMaster Saddler New World 36. Smokehouse Tickets and Shop and ensure that you have an enjoyable visit. The museum 37. Springhouse Information Desk the public road. 20. J Reilly Publican/Grocer M u s e u m 27. E. Pattison Tinsmith C a f é 1. Matthew T Mellon Toilet Facilities Café is divided into four sections: Indoor Galleries, Old World, 21. J Devlin Pawnbroker 38. Pennsylvania Log Visitor Centre 9. Mellon Homestead 28. General Store M u s e u m Picnic area Ship and Dockside and New World. Simply follow (chickens and ducks) 22. D Reynolds Ropemaker 29. Photographic Studio Farmhouse Adapted Toilets R e s t a u r a n t Galleries 39. The Herb Garden the numbered sequence on the map to find your way. 10. Viewpoint 23. J Hill Chemist 30. Mellon Bank Parent & Visitor Photographs Baby Room The directional signs in the grounds will also help. 2. Temporary Exhibition Gallery 11. Mellon Farm Landscape – NEW 24. W Murray Drapers 31. Wheelwrights 40. Cunningham Springhouse 41. Western Pennsylvania Parking Learning Centre You can also ask our staff in the Visitor Centre for 3. Emigrants Exhibition 12. Campbell House and Hardware 32. Samuel Fulton 25. Log House Disabled Parking Residential Centre advice on a route to suit your needs. Old World 13. Tullyallen Mass House W G O’Doherty Stone House Licensed Grocer 42. West Virginia McCallister 4. 14. Turf Bank 33. The Log Cabin Single Room Cabin 26. Ship and Dockside Gallery House – NEW 5. Forge 15. Hughes House 34. The Pennsylvania Log Barn 16. Schoolhouse 35. Corn Crib 43. The Centre for Migration 6. Weavers Cottage Studies / Library 7. Meeting House 17. Mountjoy Post Office 8. Vestry 18. RJ Blair Printer New World Development 11 The next exhibit of the New World development to open will be the Rogan House from near Nashville in Tennessee. The opening of the Rogan House 12 10 begins a programme of development that will see an American village, 09 a covered bridge and five further farmsteads added to the museum over 14 the next number of years. 13 32 15 07 17 06 41 40 33 08 27 31 18 25 35 36 37 34 05 38 16 39 42 04 26 M u s e u m C a f é 03 02 M u s e u m How long will it take to walk? R e s t a u r a n t From Visitor Centre (1) to Campbell House (12) – 5 minutes 01 From Mellon Homestead (9) to West Pennsylvania Log House (41) – 15 minutes 43 From Ship and Dockside Gallery (26) to West Virginia McCallister House (42) – 10 minutes Tell me more 1. Matthew T Mellon handloom which would have 10. Viewpoint 15. Hughes House Printers both from Strabane 32. Samuel Fulton 38. Pennsylvania a farmer and according to and Reilly’s Spirit Grocers from the 1860 US Census, he could Visitor Centre been used to weave tweed or Stone House Log Farmhouse linen. It was here that the man of Before leaving the Mellon Moved from Dernaved townland Newtownbutler. You can also read and write, owned land and Your visit begins and ends at the house would spend the long Homestead, visit the viewpoint in County Monaghan, this is the explore a Saddler’s shop from This original stone building This two storey house is a property to the value of $1000 our Visitor Centre. With a ticket evenings weaving, while his wife and enjoy the beautiful scenery boyhood home of John Joseph Cavan and a Ropeworks from came from Lancaster County, replica of the one which Thomas as well as personal belongings desk, gift shop, café, toilets and spun the flax fibres into yarn and of the River Strule and the Hughes. John emigrated to Dungannon as you stroll along Pennsylvania. It was the home Mellon and his family lived in to the value of $200. The house other visitor facilities, you’ll find his children carded and combed Sperrin Mountains. America in 1817 where he the street. of Samuel Fulton who emigrated four years after their arrival in and land was purchased by the all the help you need here. If you the flax in preparation for the eventually became the first from Donegal and settled in Pennsylvania. With six rooms, county in the 1850s and turned need any assistance while in the spinning wheel. 11. Mellon Farm Catholic Archbishop of New York. Lancaster County in 1724. its greater size and appearance into Cabell County Poor Farm. outdoor museum, please ask Landscape NEW He laid the cornerstone of Samuel built this one and half indicated increasing success a costumed guide. 7. Meeting House the famous Saint Patrick’s storey house using field stones and prosperity. The original 43. The Centre for Take a walk around the early Cathedral located on Fifth he found on his land, a method still stands to this day in the When you are ready to begin This Meeting House is a 1800s Mellon farm landscape. Avenue in Manhattan. Typical of building which he had been town of Export, Pennsylvania. Migration Studies / Library your tour, make your way to the replica of the Presbyterian The full walk should take of houses in south Ulster at the familiar with from his life If what you see in the outdoor Exhibition Gallery through the Church from Mountjoy located approximately 20 minutes time, a striking feature of this in Ireland. He built the house 39. The Herb Garden museum makes you want to entrance marked Gallery and at a crossroads only a few miles to complete. house is the ‘jamb’ wall, a single over a spring so he had a place find out more about any aspect Outdoor Museum. from the museum. Dating from brick wall between the front door to keep milk and other perishable The Herb Garden provided fresh of Irish migration, including vegetables and herbs as well the late 1700s, it is where 12. Campbell House and the hearth that prevented foods fresh. the migration story of your own 2. Temporary Thomas Mellon worshipped draughts while also as plants that could be used for ancestors, then a visit to the This is the original, ancestral 26. Ship and Exhibition Gallery as a boy. To hear more about offering privacy. medicinal purposes in a time Centre for Migration Studies is home of the Campbell family of Dockside Gallery this building, press the button before modern health care. a must. The centre supports the Explore our programme of changing Aghalane in Plumbridge, County on the pulpit from where the Lying in the dock, waiting to museum by providing reference exhibitions and displays. Created Tyrone. As you can see from the minister would have delivered take you to your new homeland 40. Cunningham Springhouse resources for studying the to complement the museum’s writing above the door, it was built many a lengthy sermon. on the American Frontier is a history of both the United States permanent collection, they cover in 1786 by Hugh Campbell who Part of the original Cunningham replica of an early 1800s emigrant and Ulster in the 18th and 19th a broad range of subjects that owned and farmed a considerable farmstead from Allegheny 8. Vestry sailing ship. It has been modelled centuries. Everyone welcome. tell the story of emigration amount of land. He had twelve on the Brig Union which carried County, Pennsylvania, the cool in interesting ways.