Beamish Museum welcomes around 800,000 visitors every year, so it is no surprise that it takes a team of more than 500 paid staff and around ...

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Celebrations - in apt retro style - are under way at Beamish Museum following news of a prestigious UK award. As reported, the County Durham attraction won the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 title ...

The recent Remaking Beamish project added areas including a 1950s town and farm An open-air museum in County Durham that features faithful recreations of old homes, shops, farms and a colliery has won ...

Many local people have donated their collections to the museum [BBC] A museum's archives may be reopened to the public in late 2026. Beamish Museum in County Durham holds more than 2.5 million items ...

County Durham open-air attraction Beamish Museum has delayed its opening times amid icy weather from Storm Goretti.

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If you want to experience what Christmas was like in times gone by, then head to Beamish, The Living Museum of the North for their fun-filled festive programme. Did you know with a Digital ...

Time marches on. Society advances. Roads expand and old buildings get torn down and replaced. Well, usually. In an open-air museum in the north of England, old buildings and a different way of life ...

An open-air museum in County Durham that features faithful recreations of old homes, shops, farms and a colliery has won the annual award for the UK's museum of the year. Beamish, The Living Museum of ...