The Ulster Folk Museum is located in Belfast: it tells the way of life and traditions of the people of Northern Ireland, past and present. The museum is among Ireland's top tourist attractions.

The Folk Museum houses a number of old buildings and homes which have been salvaged from various parts of Ireland and then rebuilt as the originals in the museum grounds. Part of the museum is also dedicated to illustrating the rural lifestyle in the early 20th century. Visitors can stroll through the reconstructed countryside of the period complete with cottages, crops, farms, livestock. The museum also reproduces a typical Ulster town of the time called "Ballycultra", with shops, churches and terraced and larger houses and a tea room. The Ulster Folk Museum offers regular activities such as crafts, embroidery, prints and an open hearth kitchen.

In addition, the museum is home to the main film, photographic, television and sound archives of Northern Ireland: it hosts the BBC program archive of Northern Ireland and has 2,000 hours of sound material broadcast between 1972 and 2002. from the Irish-language radio station RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, from his studios in Derrybeg, County Donegal. In the museum there is also an archive of Ulster dialects and a large library containing 15,000 books and periodicals.