Beamish Museum
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Multi award winning Living Museum of the North telling the story of people in North East England during the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s & 1950s.
County Durham, UK
Joined March 2009
Here's a reminder of our Winter Opening Times for the next couple of months.
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Who loves watching the trams as they arrive in our 1900s Town? 🚃 👀 🙋♂️
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At 12 noon, we marked 25 years since the last pit pony left the last coal mine in County Durham. Did you know that, at the peak of mining in 1913, 22,000 pit ponies worked underground in County Durham?
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We were thrilled to hear we have received £970,000 as part of the government's £1.57billion #CultureRecoveryFund! This will help to protect Beamish and allow us to continue to tell the story of everyday life in the North East #HereForCulture @DCMS @hmtreasury @ace_national
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We love rhubarb and custard day in Jubilee Confectioners in our 1900s Town.#Sweets #SweetShop #RhubarbAndCustard
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INCREDIBLE NEWS! @heritagelottery have awarded us £10.9m for our #RemakingBeamish project - a 1950s Town & expanding our 1820s landscape.
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Today visitors have been making birthday cards in our 1950s welfare hall to celebrate Her Majesty #QueenElizabethII's 96th birthday! 🥳 .@RoyalFamily
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We welcomed some special guests to the museum to film today! Were you one of the many people who took selfies with @RickyTomlinson and @RalfLittle? What lovely guys eh!? We'll keep you posted as to when and where you can watch Beamish on screen! 🤩
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There's been one benefit to all the snow at Beamish. we get to use our sleigh!
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The Cricket World Cup trophy has arrived at Beamish! #cwctrophytour @cricketworldcup @DurhamCricket @ThisisDurham
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We’ve got some exciting news to share today! We will be relocating #PenshawMonument to the museum as part of the @NorthEastNT icons 175th birthday celebrations and our #RemakingBeamish project!. To find out more, visit
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Ding, ding. hold on tight please! We're going on a tram ride today!
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We were thrilled to welcome Sophie Rundle to the museum today. Sophie played Ada Thorne in the hit BBC drama Peaky Blinders! #PeakyBlinders
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We are delighted to have been named the North East’s most visited attraction, and the 17th most visited paid-for attraction nationally, in a new @VisitEngland report! . Thank you to everyone who has visited and supported the museum. Find out more here
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We’re absolutely thrilled to have been awarded £585,000 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. This will help our recovery and reopening following the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re hugely grateful for this support #HereForCulture @DCMS @ace_national
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EXCITING NEWS 🥳🤩. we’re reopening our doors on 23rd July 2020! We’ve really missed you all and we can’t wait to welcome you back. For more info visit -
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All of this #snowuk excitement gives us the perfect opportunity to share some photographs from our archive! This is one of our favourites - Postman delivering letters in deep snow, Stanley Crook - 1936. #ExploreYourArchive #snow #Snowmageddon #FridayFeeling
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Want a sneaky tour of the new 1950s exhibits opening tomorrow (Friday, 9th June)? Follow us on this whistle-stop tour!
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Beamish is BACK‼️😍 we were so delighted to reopen our doors again this morning!. Have you booked your entry timeslot yet to visit us again? Visit our website to book yours -
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An un-ewe-sual sight at Beamish 🐑. moving our sheep from one field to another via The 1900s Town! #PleaseBaaLeft #MakeAEweTurn
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How cute is this? Our Pockerley cats, Percy and George cuddled up into a heart shape! 🥰
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Full steam ahead! Locos Glyder, Coffee Pot & Samson passed their annual steam tests!. Our Steam Technician & Team have been carrying out winter maintenance including stripping apart, checking & re-assembling the engines ready for the external assessor visit today. Well done!
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The wonderful sound of wheels rattling over cobbles! Transport on The 1900s Town street once again! . From today we are able to welcome you back inside many of our museum attractions and exhibits, run our 1950s busses and offer table service in our Tea Rooms daily 😁
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We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Rhiannon Hiles as our Chief Executive.
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Naomi and Rachelle, the first all female crew at Rowley Station!
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In collaboration with @durham_uni and funded by the @ahrcpress (via the @nbcdtp) we are excited to invite applications for a Collaborative Doctoral Award: Nostalgia and the transformation of working-class heritage.
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Look who we've just bumped into on our 1900s Town Street! George Clarke from Amazing Spaces. We hope he's impressed with the Beamish buildings! @MrGeorgeClarke
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Morning @IAmChrisRamsey and @Rosemarino, we were listening to your podcast and heard that you enjoy our broken biscuits! Next time you visit, have a bag or two on us! Oh and good luck tonight 🤞🍀🕺! @bbcstrictly #Strictly #KeepDancing
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We’re absolutely thrilled to have won the national Visitor Welcome Award at the #MandHAwards tonight! 🎉🎉Thank you! It’s testament to the fantastic warm welcome and visitor experience from our amazing staff and volunteers. Huge well done to all of tonight’s winners & finalists!
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Wow! We are thrilled to have been named number 1 in @thetimes "Seven of the best open-air museums in the UK".
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We're having a flipping good day around the museum this #ShroveTuesday! What do you have with your #pancakes? #PancakeDay
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Can we get three cheers for our newly-passed tram drivers? Well done team!
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Who spotted our tweet about the giant batch of cinder toffee this morning? It’s now being broken up into batches and it’s rather therapeutic to watch!
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🎄We are thrilled to hear that @thetimes has named Christmas at Beamish one of "Seven of the UK’s best festive days out"!🎄. With only 5 days to go until festive celebrations begin, we can't wait to welcome everyone enjoy the Christmas season with us!
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We’ve got some exciting news to share today – we’re putting a roof over Beamish! We already share the amazing sights, sounds and smells of the North East’s history – and now we’ll soon be able to recreate the air conditions and weather of the past too!
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We are incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen. We send our sincere condolences to the Royal Family – our thoughts & sympathies are with them at this very sad time. Thank you to Her Majesty, our longest-reigning monarch, for her loyal & devoted service
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📢 REOPENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢. Exciting news… we’re planning to reopen our outdoor areas only from 12th April, under Step 2 of the government’s COVID-19 roadmap. We can’t wait to welcome you back to Beamish!
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Snaps from our team working at the museum. What a beautiful day! ❄❄❄
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So cute. have a gander at this 😍! Our Pockerley geese, Edward and Jane have welcomed some new arrivals this week!
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We've been named the most visited attraction in the region in a new report by @alva_uk. We welcomed 801,756 visitors last year, an increase of four per cent on 2022! The figures were released to mark English Tourism Week @VisitEngland #EnglishTourismWeek24.
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🎉Our 1950s Front Street terrace is now open! 🎉. We've had a fantastic day celebrating the opening of Middleton's Quality Fish and Chips, John's Café, our recreation of Norman Cornish’s house and Elizabeth's Hairdresser's.
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One last look! The Grand Electric #Cinema will be transported 15 miles from Ryhope in #Sunderland to Beamish, where it will be restored to its former glory and preserved for future generations, as part of our 1950s Town. @heritagelottery @HLFNorthEast #RemakingBeamish
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We're big #DowntonAbbey fans here and are really looking forward to the movie release this Friday! Did you know that filming took place here at the museum? Take a peek behind the scenes! #DowntonAbbeyFilm #downtonabbeymovie
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We’ve been shortlisted in the Large Visitor Attraction of the Year category for the North East England Tourism Awards 2020! 🥳. The awards ceremony will take place in March next year and local Geordie and stand-up comedian @IAmChrisRamsey will present. Fingers crossed! 🤞
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We won! Tourism & Hospitality Award at the North East Business Awards 2018! #NEBizAwards @jnlbusiness
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Wow!!! We won! @TourismAwardsNE Large Visitor Attraction of the Year!!! We are overwhelmed!
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We were pleased to welcome the cast of @BenidormTVshow @benidormonstage to Beamish today! They have stocked up on Jubilee Confectioners treats to keep them going during their @SundEmpire performances!
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Wondering what is going to be built on the other side of our #1950s Front Street? Here's what you have to look forward to. 😍 The Grand #cinema, A Reece Ltd #electricalshop and Romer Parrish #toyshop - due to open next year! #RemakingBeamish @HeritageFundUK @SpaceArchUK
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🚌😍🎉 We welcomed our new wheelchair accessible bus, Crosville 716, into service today following its 7 year restoration! It's been specially adapted with a lift fitted on the back so visitors with access needs can be transported around the museum on a vintage bus.
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Work on our 1950s Town construction site continues at pace! The bowling green has been laid and building work is progressing on the pavilion, aged miners' homes, semi-detached houses & police houses. We're due to open this stage later this year. @HeritageFundUK #RemakingBeamish
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Howzat for a great delivery? Teatime treats fresh from our Edwardian Herron’s Bakery at #ENGvNZ Cricket World Cup match @RiversideDurham #CWC19 Hope you enjoyed them @michaelvaughan @bbctms #Durham19
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Good morning! Ian from our Gardening Team sent us this lovely photo. anyone else catch the sunrise? ☀️🍁🍂🧡
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We're all thoroughly enjoying locomotive Coffee Pot's 150th birthday celebrations today. 🎉 It feels like a real treat to see five engines in operation! #TwitterSteamRally2
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Beamish Museum MONOPOLY has arrived! 🤩🤩 PASS GO and get yours here 👇.
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🌟Twinkle twinkle!🌟 Beamish 1900s Town street dressed for Christmas is a view not to be missed! Will you be joining us for a visit this festive season? Celebrations begin THIS weekend! (25th November).
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Walking in a Beamish Winter Wonderland 😍🎄❄️! There was a lovely sprinkling of snow to make our first 2022 Christmas Evening picture perfect 📸! #ChristmasAtBeamish
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It's been a bit frosty here at Beamish this morning! 😍❄️
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Is there anything better than a sunny Saturday afternoon at Beamish Museum? We don’t think there is!
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Good morning from The 1900s Town. it's looking fantastically festive in the dentist's house! 🎄✨
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Well, that's the diet out of the window! Special edition Cadbury's Dairy Milk with 1951 design packaging, now available in the Museum Shop!. It's probably the only place in the country (if not the world), where you can get these!
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A few views from around Beamish taken by our onsite team 📸
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We're thrilled to announce that our drift mine is back open!. We've been carrying out essential work over the past few months but from today, you will once again be able to take a guided tour down our drift mine and experience the reality of life underground for yourself!
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Beamish from above! We couldn't resist sharing this unusual view of our 350 acre museum site. Did you know that one of the reasons the site was selected by our founding Director Frank Atkinson was because of its basin shape?! So no modern buildings can be seen whilst you're here!
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We’re thrilled to have been announced winners of the Pandemic Pivot Award in this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards! Thank you so much to everyone involved! @MandHShow #MandHAwards
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What a difference a few weeks make! We've popped over to our 1950s Town construction site to take a look at how the terrace is coming along. windows, staircases, doors and shop fronts are all going in! @HeritageFundUK #RemakingBeamish
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We won!! We had tough competition from @BeaconofLight and @pod_gables but we are absolutely over the moon to win the Tourism and Hospitality Award at #NEBizAwards19 🏆 on to the final!
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It’s an emotional day as we close our doors again under the new national COVID-19 restrictions. Once again, THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to everyone for your amazing support. ❤️. (1/5)
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As it's our Golden Jubilee year, we've been looking through our archive photos of Beamish over the past 50 years. here's our 1900s Town being built!
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We were thrilled to welcome comedian Ross Noble to the museum today. It was a pleasure to have you visit us Ross, hope to see you again soon!. @realrossnoble
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The buglers from Off Key Music sounded the Last Post before a two minute silence in the park in The 1900s Town this morning. Thank you to everyone who joined us to commemorate those who have given their lives in the line of duty. #RemembranceSunday #TwoMinuteSilence
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Disruption continues on our 1900s Town street. A Suffragette has tied herself to the railings of Ravensworth Terrace and will not be moved! This chaos can’t continue, hurry down to Beamish and help the Suffragettes secure votes for women! #InternationalWomenDay2020
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