The National Museum of Northern Ireland in Belfast

Museums need to reach out and appeal to all members of society. Northern ireland has a shared history, but it doesn't have a shared memory because different communities remember and understand the past differently. A museum in belfast chose an object that would create some kind of shared memory or indicate a shared memory which you could talk about. And very brilliantly, they chose an object from the channel force here as the dairy girls. They've chosen the moment in the episode where the four girls go on a bridge building, community building, harmony with boys from a protestant school. It was a great success in the series. The object is now in the permanent collection of the national museum in bel