Museum’s poppy display will honour war dead

Hundreds of thousands of poppies will cascade down the front of the Ulster Museum in Belfast in an art installation commemorating lives lost in the First World War.

The Weeping Window poppy sculpture, first seen at the Tower of London, features almost one million individual ceramic poppies representing British and colonial dead. The artwork will be part of Belfast International Arts Festival.

Kim Mawhinney, head of art at National Museums NI, said: “This spectacular piece of art will be a great draw for visitors to the Ulster Museum and, as well as being deeply moving, it links beautifully to the collections in our new permanent Modern History gallery which explores the First World War and its aftermath through social, cultural, political and military history.”