Take a virtual tour of Mid-Antrim Museum & Arts Centre at the Braid, Ballymena
The Mid-Antrim Museum offers a fascinating experience for all the family. The museum boasts two large state of the art exhibition galleries. In the history gallery the story of the mid-Antrim area and its people is presented in a thoroughly contemporary way.

The displays, including sound narratives for adults and interactive displays for children, are designed to allow the visitor to acquire a greater understanding of the relationship between local and national history. Themes covered include settlement & change, commerce & industry, living off the land and politics & conflict.

The current exhibition in the temporary gallery is as follows:
May to July
PEACE III: Cultural Fusions Exhibitions
(1) The Art of the Troubles
A special collaboration with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland drawing on its collection of art inspired by, and responding to, ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. This unique resource has been curated specially for the North East Cluster Peace III Culture and Arts Programme. It provides a stimulating basis for creative engagement with issues surrounding the conflict and its legacy. The exhibition includes pieces by internationally recognised Northern Irish artists.
(2) Images of Ireland: The Politics of Culture, 1886-1916
This exhibition explores this defining period of historical and cultural debate in Ireland. The theme of the exhibition is ‘identity’ - how ideas of Irish, British, Gaelic and Orange identity evolved over the period commonly referred to as the ‘Gaelic Revival’. It looks in particular at symbols of identity and compares and contrasts cultural expression at that time with how identity is viewed today. The exhibition has been developed in partnership with the Causeway Museum Service.

We are located at the junction of Linen Hall Street and Bridge Street, below the Town Hall.