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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many local people have donated their collections to the museum [BBC] A museum's archives may be reopened to the public in late ...

Stepping inside Jubilee Confectioners in The 1900s Town at Beamish Museum, we are faced with wooden shelves stacked with jars ...

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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 ...

Beamish Museum welcomes around 800,000 visitors every year - so it is no surprise that it takes a team of over 350 paid staff and 400 volunteers to keep the attraction ticking over. The most popular ...

Plans to open more holiday accommodation in Beamish Museum's 1820s village have been put on hold, despite the council giving them the green light. Council planners approved the award-winning open-air ...

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This weekend, I decided to shift the narrative from my usual tales of visiting specific locales and engaging with locals and business owners. Instead, I chose to spotlight the attractions and ...

Congratulations pour in after the open-air attraction was named Museum of the Year. Beamish in Country Durham, which recreates life from bygone eras, is named the UK's museum of the year. The Durham ...

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 ...