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Beamish
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Established 1970
Location Beamish, Stanley, County Durham, England
Type Open air living museum
Collection size 304,000+ objects
Visitors 350,000 annually

Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open air museum. It is at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham England.


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  • Beamish Museum street scene

    Reenactors creating a period street scene at the museum

  • Co-op, Town, Beamish Museum, 11 April 2012

    The Annfield Plain Industrial Co-operative Society store.

  • Horses, Town stables, Beamish Museum, 28 September 2011 (2)

    Cariage and pair leaving the stables

  • Echo office Beamish

    Opening of the Sunderland Daily Echo exhibit at Beamish in May 1991

  • Town railway, Beamish Museum, 11 April 2012

    Rowley station and yard.

  • Town railway, Beamish Museum, 11 September 2011 (9)

    Waggon and Iron Works shed.

  • Coffee pot no1 beamish

    Coffee Pot No 1 in steam

  • Miners Cottages, Pit Village, Beamish Museum, 11 September 2011 (1)

    Miners Cottages

  • School, Pit Village, Beamish Museum, 20 December 2009

    Village school in the winter snow

  • Chapel, Pit Village, Beamish Museum, 11 September 2011 (1) (cropped)

    Pit Hill chapel

  • Davy's Fried Fish, Beamish Museum, 21 November 2013

    Inside the chippy

  • Beamish museum farm horse

    Reenactor stands with a pack horse at the museum.

  • Pockerley Old Hall, Beamish Museum, 28 August 2013

    Pockerley Old Hall

  • Pockerley Waggonway shed, Beamish Museum, 29 July 2011

    The Great Shed of the Pockerley Waggonway

  • St Helen’s Church, Beamish Museum, 6 October 2012 (cropped)

    St Helen's Church

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