Beamish Museum
Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch objects.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”
- Address: Beamish, Stanley, DH9 0RG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pockerley Farmhouse and Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery.
Pockerley Farmhouse
House
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pockerley Farmhouse is situated 730 feet east of Beamish Museum.
Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery
Industrial building
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery is an industrial building, which is situated 910 feet south of Beamish Museum.
Beamish Hall
Hotel
Photo: Bluespacecat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beamish Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now converted to a hotel, which stands in 24 acres of grounds near the town of Stanley, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building. Beamish Hall is situated 2,900 feet west 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, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.88569° or 54° 53′ 9″ northLongitude
-1.65832° or 1° 39′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C6WV8PR+7MOpenStreetMap ID
way 338800611OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q252417
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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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