Baird's Print Shop Exterior

The Ulster Folk Museum was created to preserve a rural way of life in danger of disappearing forever due to increasing urbanisation and industrialisation in Northern Ireland.  It celebrates all aspects of our culture including many elements of Ulster-Scots heritage.

The W & G Baird print shop is modelled on a Plantation period building from Coleraine, County Londonderry.  There has been a printing industry in Ulster for over three hundred years.  By the late 1800s the printer’s shop had become part of the fabric of life in Ulster’s towns.

The shop is designed to illustrate the range of work undertaken by a letterpress printer in a small town in Ulster in the early 1900s.

The Folk Museum houses a variety of old buildings and dwellings which have been collected from various parts of Ireland and rebuilt in the grounds of the museum, brick by brick.