News & press
What is moving around the project.
Public argument, heritage recognition and institutional signals around the museum proposition.
22 Jan 2025
Wanderlust
World Monuments Fund announces 2025 watch list for heritage sites facing major challenges
Belfast Assembly Rooms — championed by MOTAP — named alongside global heritage sites on the World Monuments Fund 2025 watch list.
Read more →21 Jan 2025
Time Out UK
The world’s 25 most ‘at risk’ heritage sites have been named — and one is in the UK
Time Out reports on the WMF 2025 list, highlighting the Assembly Rooms as the UK entry and its civic significance for Belfast.
Read more →17 Jan 2025
Irish American Magazine
Heritage site in Northern Ireland added to global list of at-risk locations
International coverage of the Assembly Rooms listing and the broader case for protecting Belfast’s civic and cultural fabric.
Read more →29 Feb 2024
Press
An NI Troubles peace museum for ‘a new lease of life’
A public discussion on why Northern Ireland needs a serious museum and archive infrastructure for the Troubles and peace-making era.
Read more →14 Aug 2021
Belfast Telegraph
Why we need a museum of the Troubles
A call to think ambitiously about a people’s museum on a scale capable of carrying the subject with proper seriousness.
Read more →4 May 2021
Opinion
From the Maze to the Wall — towards a Museum of the Troubles and Peace
An argument for turning symbolic sites of division into spaces of shared learning, memory and cultural transformation.
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