Bangor Town Museum
Bangor Town Museum is a museum in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Bangor Town Museum is situated nearby to the town hall Bangor Castle, as well as near Castle Park.- Opening hours:
Tuesday—Saturday: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
Saturday: noon—4:00 PM - Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “North Down Museum”
- Address: Bangor, BT20 4BT
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bangor Bus and Rail Centre and Bangor Abbey.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre
Railway station
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is a combined rail and bus interchange which serves the city of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. The station in its current form was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the new millennium. Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Bangor Town Museum.
Bangor Abbey
Church
Photo: Andrew Muir, CC BY 2.0.
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral. Bangor Abbey is situated 1,300 feet west of Bangor Town Museum.
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College
School
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is an 11–18 co-educational, secondary school and sixth form in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school dates from 2001 when the non-selective Bangor Girls High School and the non-selective Gransha Boys' High school merged. Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Bangor Town Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangor and Kilcooley estate.
Bangor
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bangor is a town on the south shore of Belfast Lough, in County Down. It was a holiday resort from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century but is now chiefly a commuter town for Belfast. In 2021 it had a population of 64,000.
Kilcooley estate
Suburb
Kilcooley estate is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
Bangor Town Museum
- Categories: local authority museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.65592° or 54° 39′ 21″ northLongitude
-5.66881° or 5° 40′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C6PM84J+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 957260221OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q110521450
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