Blog (Down County Museum) - NMD Museums

The first edition of the Downpatrick Recorder was published on Saturday, 31st December 1836. Its name was later changed to The Down Recorder in 1878 by Joseph Clarke in response to growin..

While we might not have a T-Rex hidden in our store, Down County Museum holds a rich collection of fossils. In this blog, we explore some of these in more depth and how they form part of County Down's geological history. 

New exhibition Down County Museum