Silver and metalwork, historic and contemporary costume and fashion, historic and contemporary jewellery, textiles and the childhood collection of toys and dolls.

Medieval archaeology

Conservation and restoration of watercolours, drawings, maps, documents and other works on paper

General advice, information on curatorial contact, loans from the Preventive Conservation Resource Centre

Botanical, geological and zoological specimens

Conservation and restoration of easel paintings

Continental oil paintings , particularly Italian Old Masters; icons; 20th century paintings.

Watercolours, prints and drawings, illustrated books, stained glass and sculpture.

Social, political and industrial history of the north of Ireland; photographs; coins, medals and militaria.

Ulster Museum Picture Library

Vertebrates; particularly Irish bats

Non-British and non-Irish flowering plants, garden plants, economic botany, timbers, materia medica; particular research interests include exotic/garden flora of Northern Ireland. 

Freshwater invertebrates

Environmental data recording; particular research interest in the marine mollusca of Ireland.

Geology; particular research interests include fossil graptolites, history of collections, development of geology in Northern Ireland, illustrators of fossils in the 19th century.

Geology,particularly history of the collections

General advice and curatorial contact

Insects, including pest species

Incoming and outgoing loans, object entry

Ethnographic collections and the Spanish Armada