Museum · England · Restored
Beamish, The Living Museum of The North
Beamish Museum is an open-air living museum in County Durham that recreates everyday urban and rural life from the region around the climax of industrialisation. The site comprises relocated, replicated and original buildings, working vehicles and costumed interpreters across a 350-acre estate with named areas such as the Town, tramway, colliery and Home Farm.
First raised
1970
Its prime
1913
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1913
What Beamish, The Living Museum of The North looked like in its prime.
A working open-air early 20th-century town and countryside scene: cobbled streets and tram rails, maroon-and-cream electric trams, two-storey red-brick shopfronts with stone lintels and timber sash windows, rows of terraced houses with slate roofs and chimneys, timber and iron industrial buildings, painted wooden signage, horse-drawn and motor vehicles, and reconstructed farm buildings and colliery structures arranged around wide paths and a tramway oval.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1913.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Beamish, The Living Museum of The North — including 8 interiors: beamish tram (interior), annfield plain co-op store (ground floor), joseph herron bakery (interior with ovens) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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