ULSTER AMERICAN FOLK PARK

This open-air museum is a must-see attraction during a visit to the region in the summer. In a large natural park, the life and houses of the future emigrants to North America during the 18th and 19th centuries are reconstructed identically (with the materials of the time, of course). Along a marked route (which can take between two and three hours), you visit the blacksmith and the blacksmith, the milkmaid and her garden, the letter carrier and the post office, the printer in his store, the grocer and the grocery store, the banker in his bank... and all sorts of cottages inhabited by real people (actors in period costumes are waiting for you) who live in the skin of the inhabitants of yesteryear. The houses are not crammed together, and this is what makes the attraction so charming: discovering at the bend of a path, a field, a garden or a grove the farm or the cottage to be visited. We almost feel embarrassed to enter the courtyard where the chickens are pecking, or the well-ordered bedroom lit by a candle, as if it were a private home and not a museum! To finish, a whole street is reconstituted with the port of embarkation of the emigrants with the boat they are going to take (to visit also, with the passenger holds, striking!). In short, you will have understood, it is a playful and interactive visit. The ideal kind of museum for a family visit.