Beamish Museum Beamish County Durham DH9 0RG. Contact Us. Museum map. Beamish Unlimited. Find your way around our museum site with this zoomable map. View Map. Zoom Out Zoom In. Buy the guide book. Buy the magazine. Beamish collections.

Plan your visit to Beamish, The Living Museum of the North. Here you will find information about visiting the museum.

Remaking Beamish is the biggest development in Beamish’s history. The exciting project includes over 25 new exhibits and attractions and is bringing a new era to the museum in the form of a 1950s Town and 1950s farm.

Beamish is a world famous open air museum, telling the story of life in North East England during the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s and 1950s. Menu Accessibility Tools

Beamish Folk Sun, 13th Apr :: 11.30am-1.30pm Enjoy folk music from the Northern Roots band in Hetton band hall in The 1900s Pit Village on the second Sunday of each month.

Beamish Museum Beamish County Durham DH9 0RG. Contact Us. Download our visitor map here. Beamish Unlimited. Buy the guide book. Buy the magazine. Beamish collections.

Visitors to the museum meet costumed folk and discover fascinating stories of everyday life in the region through time. See our map of Beamish here.

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The site on which the museum stands was once at the heart of the Durham coalfield. The early 1900s were a prosperous period for North East miners, who were relatively well paid. Their wages were double those of agricultural workers, the next biggest industry.

Beamish was the vision of Dr Frank Atkinson, the Museum’s founder and first director. Frank had visited Scandinavian folk museums in the early 1950s and was inspired to create an open air museum for the North East. He realised the dramatically-changing region was losing its …