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Article: Vintage moment as museum's car hits the heights
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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A STUNNING example of transport history has been welcomed back to
the UIster Museum.
Elevated almost 23 metres in the air in a glass tower, the
Chambers vintage car has joined a host of other notable exhibits
including an Edmontosaurus dinosaur skeleton, temple bells and a
linen machine.
These showpieces can be viewed from all angles within the
refurbished museum, which reopens this autumn.
Dr Jim McGreevy, director of collections and interpretation of
National Museums Northern Ireland, said: "The Window on our World
display tower is a wonderful way to welcome our visitors to the
Ulster Museum.
"Not only is it visually stunning, it also provides our visitors
with a sense of the scale and ...