Beamish Museum

Beamish
Established	1970
Location	Beamish, Stanley, County Durham, England
Type	Open air living museum
Collection size	304,000+ objects
Visitor figures	350,000 annually
Director	Richard Evans
Website	Beamish official website

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.

Beamish Museum Media

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  Reenactors creating a period street scene at the museum

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  The Annfield Plain Industrial Co-operative Society store.

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  Carriage and pair leaving the stables

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

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  Beamish Museum, County Durham, England. The view east from the west footbridge on the Town railway, showing the station, signal box, east footbridge & part of the goods shed & yard. Top right, just about visible, is the museum' 1913 Northern replica bus (reg. J 2007) at the west end of the main stre

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  Waggon and Iron Works shed.

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  Reconstructed pitworks buildings showing winding gear

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  Coffee Pot No 1 in steam at Beamish Museum. It's on the Colliery railway, in the sidings north of Pit Village. This is the view to the NW - in the distance behind the chimney can be seen the arm of the rail crane installed near the tram depot.

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  Beamish Museum, County Durham, England. These are the Miners Cottages (Pitfield Street side) in the Pit Village.

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  Village school in the winter snow