AEOM Conference - Ulster Folk Museum: Learning from the Land
At the Rural AEOM Conference 2025, we gather at the Ulster Folk Museum - Cultra Manor, to explore how rural lifeways, skills and customs can inform environmental stewardship today. We will look at how open-air museums – through their collections, practices, landscapes and people – can inspire new thinking and action.
Join us for a programme of dialogue, demonstration and discovery – and leave inspired by the lessons the land can teach us.
- Thursday 18th September 2025: 09:30-20:00 (dinner to be provided)
- Friday 19th September 2025: 09:30-16:00
- Optional: Attend the Ulster Folk Museum Harvest Festival on Saturday 20th September 2025
What is included in conference cost?
- Enjoy a series of informative and lively talks from the AEOM Community
- Engage in interesting group discussions
- Get involved in hands on activities
- Enjoy a curatorial led tour
- Rural demonstrations
- Explore the Ulster Folk Museum
- Optional attendance at Ulster Folk Museum Harvest Festival on Saturday 20th September 2025
- Morning refreshments and lunch on 18th and 19th September
- Dinner and entertainment on 18th September included
- Please note that transfers from Belfast to the Ulster Folk Museum are not included and public transport should be used to travel to the museum. A shuttle bus back to Belfast will be provided at the end of each day
- Please note flights and accommodation are not included in cost
Conference cost
- The conference is charged at a total of £165.00 per person
- If you would like to attend the conference, please book a space and make your payment by Monday 30th June 2025
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At the Rural AEOM Conference 2025, we gather at the Ulster Folk Museum - Cultra Manor, to explore how rural lifeways, skills and customs can inform environmental stewardship today. We will look at how open-air museums – through their collections, practices, landscapes and people – can inspire new thinking and action.
Join us for a programme of dialogue, demonstration and discovery – and leave inspired by the lessons the land can teach us.
- Thursday 18th September 2025: 09:30-20:00 (dinner to be provided)
- Friday 19th September 2025: 09:30-16:00
- Optional: Attend the Ulster Folk Museum Harvest Festival on Saturday 20th September 2025
What is included in conference cost?
- Enjoy a series of informative and lively talks from the AEOM Community
- Engage in interesting group discussions
- Get involved in hands on activities
- Enjoy a curatorial led tour
- Rural demonstrations
- Explore the Ulster Folk Museum
- Optional attendance at Ulster Folk Museum Harvest Festival on Saturday 20th September 2025
- Morning refreshments and lunch on 18th and 19th September
- Dinner and entertainment on 18th September included
- Please note that transfers from Belfast to the Ulster Folk Museum are not included and public transport should be used to travel to the museum. A shuttle bus back to Belfast will be provided at the end of each day
- Please note flights and accommodation are not included in cost
Conference cost
- The conference is charged at a total of £165.00 per person
- If you would like to attend the conference, please book a space and make your payment by Monday 30th June 2025
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