The Museum of Free Derry offers a range of portable exhibitions, digital resources, and video content, which are available on loan to schools, community groups, and other organisations. These resources explore key aspects of Derry’s history, human rights, conflict transformation, and social justice, as well as international issues such as Palestine and LGBT+ histories.
For additional information or if you are interested in hosting an exhibition, please contact info@museumoffreederry.org
The following portable exhibitions are available on loan:
Layan’s Steps
Based on the work of award-winning Palestinian photojournalist Eman Mohammed, Layan’s Steps tells the story of Layan Albaz, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl who lost both legs in an Israeli airstrike in October 2023 and had to travel to the USA, alone, for treatment. The exhibition focusses on Layan’s time in treatment and with her host family in Chicago, highlighting her resilience as she recovered from her appalling experience.
Time Stands Still
The exhibition, by Valencian photojournalist Germán Caballero and historian Jorge Ramos as commissioner-curator, was created to raise awareness of life for the tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in camps in Lebanon since their families were among the almost a million Palestinians forced from their homeland during the ethnic cleansing / Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath.
The audio-visual exhibition focuses on many of the problems faced by those living in the camps – cramped and inadequate housing, unemployment, gender inequality, health & education and general day-to-day life – and uses photographs and a short documentary to show the reality of life in the camps.
The photographs were taken by Germán Caballero working as a team with the Palestinian refugee journalist Rayan Sukkar in the Shatila, Burj Al Barajneh, Mar Elias, Dbayeh, Wavel, Beddawi, Mieh Mieh and Burj Shemali refugee camps in September 2019, September 2020, and January 2023.
The Bloody Sunday Trust has also compiled an Information Pack on Palestine that together with the Time Stands Still exhibition document the reality of life under Israeli occupation and apartheid, providing both a historical overview/chronology as well as, social history and personal testimony.
Queering the North
Queering the North exhibition is the first ever museum exhibition dedicated to an expansive reading of the history of the LGBT+ community in the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland from 1967 to the present day.
Based upon the work and recollections of a range of leading activists and academics, the exhibition includes a timeline of key events, starting with the exclusion of the north from the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which legalized homosexuality in Britain, and ending (for now) with the change in the marriage equality laws, which recognised marriage equality here from January 2020.
The exhibition also includes a history of the development of LGBT+ rights activism, and accounts of the formation of many of the key advocacy and support groups.
Alongside the exhibition the Bloody Sunday Trust & Museum of Free Derry, in partnership with OUTing the Past International Festival of LGBT History and School Out, have developed a suite of three Irish LGBT+ History Lessons. The lessons were created to compliment and further embed schools’ usage of the Queering the North Exhibition but can and have been delivered as stand-alone lessons.
Free Derry Lives (Digital version also available)
Personal stories of key individuals from the Free Derry period. The exhibition features 44 human shaped figures, each with a personal story attached and an accompanying film.
Lost Childhood
Stories of 20 children who lost their lives in the Derry City & Strabane District Council area during the conflict. The exhibition features 20 hanging panels, each with an individual story. Accompanying artefacts are also available if museum standard display conditions can be met.
Lost Childhood?
A digital exhibition featuring 48 photos of childhood in Free Derry by photographer Gérard Harlay.
