Inside Museums: Ulster's Folk Wonders

BBC Four

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Wednesday 19 November

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At the Ulster Folk Museum, Marie-Louise Muir discovers the beauty of everyday objects once found at homes in Northern Ireland. These include Harnen Stands used to toast oatcakes in front of an open fire and one of the finest examples of crazy patchwork quilts seen in any British museum. The collection, featuring examples of metalwork, basket-making and linen-weaving, would not exist were it not for the vision of EE Evans, whose work became one of the cornerstones of the museum, which opened in 1964, recording the lives and skills of a fast-disappearing rural community