Billy Hull was a senior prison officer in HMP Maze prison. Over a period of fifteen years at the height of the conflict, he repeatedly disobeyed an order to destroy materials. Instead he saved them.

Billy’s Museum shows the display Billy curated of these surviving objects along with interviews with him about prison and the objects. The artefacts represented in this artwork depict a scattered, non-linear biography of place, time, culture, ritual, routine, subterfuge, life and death. A living history. An artwork. A record. It was more than likely that these objects and artefacts could eventually go missing or be destroyed.

Dunsmore recognized the responsibility she held for what she had recorded and the film Billy’s Museum (2004) is still the only civilian record of these artefacts. This responsibility to mind and preserve the record of a shared history is central to Dunsmore's KEEPER archive and exhibition series.

Since 2004, this artwork – with respect to Billy’s family and with concerns for his safety - could not be exhibited in Northern Ireland. In 2021, with the acquisition of Billy’s Museum by the Ulster Museum, his responsibility for tomorrow has been fulfilled and many of the artefacts he saved, have been found and are now in the Ulster Museum’s collection. Billy’s Museum is the only civilian record of these artefacts.

Billy’s Museum, 2004/re-mastered 2017 - Edition of 3 + 1AP

Edition 1, Billy's Museum, is housed in the collection of Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland.