Blog (January 2024) - NMD Museums

This month’s blog comes from a special contributor, Shirley Lennon, who worked on a Down County Museum project which brought together the stories of Jewish refugees who came to Millisle farm.

As the UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27^th 2024, please read the blog to discover how an otherwise ordinary item donated to Down County Museum becomes so significant because of its links to survivors of the Holocaust.

An important collection of artefacts reflecting the work of the Kilkeel Knitting Mills has gone on display at Newry and Mourne Museum. The collection includes a knitting machine and examples of knitwear produced by the factory in the later decades of the 20^th century.

Over the coming months we will be profiling some of the contemporary artists featured in Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, ‘Newry Artists Past and Present’.  The series begins with the work of Anna Marie Savage.