Beamish Museum
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: open-air museum in County Durham, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Beamish”, “Beamish, The Living Museum of The North”, and “North of England Open Air Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Paul and The Shepherd & Shepherdess.
Church of St Paul
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Paul is situated 2,100 feet southeast of Beamish Museum.
The Shepherd & Shepherdess
Pub
Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.
The Shepherd & Shepherdess is a pub, which is situated 1,700 feet northwest of Beamish Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beamish and No Place.
Beamish
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish is a village in County Durham in northeast England. The village is just a straggle of miners' houses and the only reason to visit is the extensive open-air museum. Stanley is a former mining town two miles west, with a population of 19,427 in 2021.
No Place
Village
No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish. Situated to the south of the A693, it is home to an award-winning real ale pub, the Beamish Mary Inn, and lies near the Beamish Mary coal pit.
High Urpeth
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Fearon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Urpeth is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the west of Urpeth, and a short distance to the north of High Handenhold.
Beamish Museum
- Categories: open-air museum, charitable organization, independent museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Beamish Museum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beamish Museum”
- Chinese: “比米什博物館”
- Danish: “Beamish Museum”
- Danish: “North of England Open Air Museum”
- Dutch: “Beamish Museum”
- Dutch: “Beamish: North of England Open Air Museum”
- Estonian: “Beamishi muuseum”
- German: “North of England Open Air Museum”
- Italian: “Beamish Open Air Museum”
- Japanese: “ビーミッシュ・ミュージアム”
- Japanese: “ビーミッシュ博物館”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beamish Museum”
- Norwegian: “Beamish Museum”
- Swedish: “Beamish Museum”
- Ukrainian: “Біміш”
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