• Some observations on the museum's late Victorian exhibition - 'Hard Times, Great Expectations'.

Keeping it in the family: the Perceval Maxwell portraits in Down County Museum.....Eileen Black

• Textual material and portraits of some memebrs of a distinguished local family over three centuries.

Dr Alexander Leslie Gracey - Victorian Doctor.....Richard Clarke

• A short 'life' of a local man who grew up in Downpatrick, saw as a doctor the horrors of the Crimean war, and maintained his linke with his relatives in Lecale throughout his life.

The Robe of the Order of St Patrick.....Noreen Cunningham and Madeleine McAllister

• A description of this now defunct Order and of the extant robes of the 3rd Earl of Kilmorey preserved in Newry Museum.

Sporting Down.....Noel Hogg

• An account of a small exhibition of sport in the county.

New Light on the New Gaol.....Mike King

• Commentary on material related to the New Gaol in the Museum's collection in the context of the history of the gaol.

The Ballybranagh Quilt.....Madeleine McAllister

• Description of one of the most interesting of the sixty quilts (detail on cover picture) and bedcovers in the Museum's collection - depicting a lively and observant view of life in County Down in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Victorian Buildings of Downpatrick.....Dick Oram

• Contrasting description of three of Downpatrick's major Victorian Buildings, The Assembly Rooms, the St Patrick's RC Church and the Downshire Hospital.

• Victorian photographs from the Museum's Archive, with commentary.

The Famine in County Down - New Resources for Schools.....Linda McKenna

• The launch, in conjunction with the SE Education and Library Board, of two new resource packs for school Key Stages Two and Three.