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Gardner to convert the one room interior into two ground floor rooms and a broad balcony housing the museum above. The Society and museum expanded during the latter half of the nineteenth century and by 1888 it had 275 members paying an annual subscription of five shillings each. In that year the interior layout of the building was described thus: "To economise space, the reading room, by the withdrawal of a partition formed of shutters, becomes the stage of the theatre, and the theatre and museum are one. A good collection of specimens has been secured for the illustration of lectures on natural history. The library is well stocked with books in the following departments: – Antiquities, Astronomy, Arts, Biography, Chemistry, Economics, Geography, Geology, and Mineralogy, History, Mechanics, Metaphysics, Microscopy, Natural History, Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and general literature..." In 1891 Art Rooms were built immediately behind the museum and for some years an Art School flourished under the auspices of the Science & Art department of the South Kensington Museum.
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including the very dilapidated mummy...". By 1934, they had expended £1,300 "on the reconstruction of the buildings to make them suitable for a central Book
Repository and Museum". The same council minutes recommend that £50 per annun be spent "for the assistance of the Honorary Curator". The honorary curator was 46-year-old local historian George Paterson or as he became known through his writing, T.G.F. Paterson. By November 1934, he had been appointed "whole-time curator for three years commencing on the 1st January, 1935, at a salary of £3.0.0 per. week". Several years were spent rationalizing the collection and refitting the display cases as well as making alterations to the building. This was completed by 1937 and on 28 April of that year,
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caretaker's residence at the rear of the premises but as work neared completion the council was persuaded that the need for a live-in caretaker was unnecessary. It was thought the residence would suit Mr
Paterson better and after the official opening in September 1962 he moved into his new home. He was to retire the following year but spent the rest of his days living in the museum he had been instrumental in creating.
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ability to rely on the skills and resources of the larger institution. A chance to expand the museum was realised in the early 1980s when the construction of a dedicated
Library Headquarters on the outskirts of Armagh city at Woodford meant the ground floor became vacant. The museum took over the library premises rooms utilising them as storage and offices.
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training but had a curiosity about his surroundings which served him in his role as museum curator. He quickly began adding to the collection, and had wide-ranging interests which meant he acquired artefacts which varied from archaeological artefacts to eighteenth century costume. He also commissioned a work by
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January 1955 D.R.M. (Roger) Weatherup had been appointed as Paterson's Deputy Curator. Paterson and Weatherup spent several months of 1959 packing up the collections and emptying the display cases in readiness for the major refurbishment. Their temporary home for the next few years would be the
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Paterson's contacts with many of the Armagh landed gentry went back to his early days when he managed Couser's grocers in Armagh during the 1920s. Decades later when many of the "big houses" were closing up, many of the people he had done business back then donated the contents of their ancestors'
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Following the Wilson report in 1995 it was decided to merge the Ulster Museum with the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum and the Ulster
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Farquhar Paterson was born in Canada on 29 February 1888. His father had emigrated there shortly after his marriage. While he was still a young child, Paterson returned to Ireland with his family. They settled on the family farm in the townland of Cornascreeb near Portadown in County
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was unable to afford the museum so in 1973 an agreement was reached that the museum would be transferred to the Ulster Museum. This began a 40-year relationship with Northern Ireland's National Museum in Belfast. The close relationship with the Ulster Museum brought many advantages, not least the
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Although he was from a farming background, young Thomas was apprenticed to a Portadown grocery business, Davidsons. He was later to continue in this line of work in Armagh, working for the old established grocers, Couser's which catered for the local landed gentry. He possessed no formal academic
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to write a report on the current state of the museum and how it should be developed. He found many of the "curiosities" collected by the Philosophical Society to be of little value to a modern County Museum and advised "that the few scattered ethnographic objects should be likewise jettisoned,
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The school was not a success and the trustees transferred the lease to Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society in 1856. They utilised the premises as their reading room, library, lecture hall and museum. It was their museum that formed the foundation of what would become Armagh County
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During the closure of the museum all of the old buildings behind the neoclassical facade were demolished including the 1890s Art School. A new red-brick extension was built that would accommodate the museum on the first floor and the library repository below. The improvements incorporated a
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Armagh. In his early days, he often signed his name George Paterson and his friends knew him simply as Tommy. However, his numerous articles and essays published in newspapers and journals over the years were almost always signed T.G.F. Paterson.
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