Visits to the Transport Museum started for us when my older child was 2 and going through the phase of true love for Thomas the Tank Engine. We would go to the museum and look at and inside the enormous steam engines - who knew they were so big! There are about 10 of these giants and kids love climbing on board and generally getting over excited. Now steam trains I can take or leave, but there is one thing in the Transport Museum that I always have to see - check this out - a Delorean car. Remember those bad boys from the 1980s? Well I do. They were practically space age they were so modern and I remember seeing one driving around near where I went to school. And there is one in the classic movie Back to the Future. Oh. Have just realised that not only did I go to school in the 1980s, but I have real life experience of something which is now in a museum. How depressing. Back to the Museum. As well as the trains and cars, there are bikes, motor bikes, buses, milk lorries and fire engines, complete with fake cat up in the roof waiting to be rescued. It just wouldn't be right to have a Transport Museum in Belfast without a Titanic exhibition and they have just that. I always find it intrusive to read about the Titanic, after all it was a grave for hundreds of people, but I know everyone else finds it fascinating. There is also a slightly newer section on space travel which has a space travel simulator although there is a small charge for this. A family ticket for both Folk and Transport Museums will set you back £20 which is fantastic value as visiting both with lunch in between will take a full day. You can bring your own snacks and lunch to keep costs down too and there are plenty of places to stop for a picnic. There's a small café at the centre of the trains exhibit but to be really honest I find it pretty disappointing - dry scones and crumbly muffins. No thanks. So for a perfect day, bring your own food and wear comfy shoes. Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd use. read more

Transport Museum - Museums Near Me - Cultra, NDN

See all

Brilliant family day out, something for all ages. Special bank holiday events. Farm house, hundreds of old and new modes of transport with specialist information and details. GHuided tours of the cornmill, easter egg painting, donkey old world events. We were busy all day and didn't spend a kings ransom. read more