Beamish Open Air Museum
Beamish is a world famous open air museum that is set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside. It recreates life in the North of England at two important points of their history - 1825 and 1913 when the industrial revolution brought about many changes.
You will be welcomed by costumed guides who will interpret how the people of the North of England lived and worked. Most of the houses, shops and other buildings have been painstakingly reconstructed from real buildings from the area and are filled with authentic objects, furniture and machinery. There's always something happening at this “living” museum – lessons in the Village School, sweet making in the sweet factory, lace making demonstrations, horses at work in the town, demonstrations of shunting with Locomotives – and much more.
Highlights of your visit
- Pockerly Manor - a manor house and horse yard shown as they were in the 1820s
- The 1825 Railway - ride in a replica 1825 carriage behind an 1822 George Stephenson locomotive
- The Town 1913 - an award-winning recreation of a typical market town street of the early 1900s
- Home Farm 1913 - originally an estate farm, managed by the landowner's bailiff
- Colliery Village 1913 - the life-blood of industry with a steam winder, pit cottages, engine shed and drift mine
- Railway Station 1913 - a typical 1867 branch line country station which includes a ticket office and waiting room
- The Beamish Tramway - a period tramride experience on carefully restored trams that tours the town and other main areas of the museum
- Horse-drawn buses and charabancs - once a common sight and during the summer, visitors can often ride over part of the site in one of two charabancs
Plan your visit to Beamish Open Air Museum
- Beamish Hotels - view and book a wide choice of accommodation convenient for Beamish Open Air Museum
- For information and opening times check the Beamish Website
