Museum
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North
Stanley, North East England
An open-air museum with working trams, a pit village and a 1950s town.
- Price
- Admission charged
- Booking
- Best to book
- Time to allow
- 5 hours
Beamish recreates northern life from the 1820s to the 1950s across a large site with costumed staff, trams, a colliery village and sweet shops. It is a full day out, and ideal for families or a wet day.
Good to know
- Allow a full day
- Buy a ticket online
- Ride the trams between areas
- Best time
- Weekdays outside school holidays
- Open
- All year; some closed days
- Getting there
- Signed from the A1(M); large car park
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Picnic tables
- Toilets
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