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Home / Reference / Museums / History / Living History and Open Air / United Kingdom
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- Amberley Museum, West Sussex - Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
- Avoncroft Museum of Buildings - Over 20 historic buildings, including a windmill, have been dismantled and re-erected on this site in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester.
www.bromsgrove.gov.uk/avoncroft.html
- Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum - Set over 300 acres of countryside in county Durham, the site vividly recreates life in Northern England in the 1800s and 1900s. Covers the social, agricultural and industrial history of the region.
www.countydurham.com/beamish
- Bede's World - The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the great scholar Bede (AD 673-735). Experimental recreation of an Anglo-Saxon farm.
www.bedesworld.co.uk
- Black Country Living Museum - Heritage of the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators. Tour via interactive map.
www.bclm.co.uk
- Burns National Heritage Park - The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him. Description, biography, events, kid's zone.
www.burnsheritagepark.com
- Butser Ancient Farm - Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.
www.butser.org.uk
- Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort - This reconstructed Iron Age hillfort still has excavation going on each summer. Iron Age roundhouses and livestock. How to get there, online tour, how to build a roundhouse, education and events.
www.castellhenllys.com
- Chiltern Open Air Museum - This museum at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings.
www.coam.org.uk
- Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland - The site at Waterside, by Patna, Ayrshire was a Victorian ironworks.
home.btconnect.com/Dunaskin
- Flag Fen - At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information.
www.eastmidlands.info/flagfen
- Friar House - A 17th-century house at Battle, East Sussex, which has been restored and furnished to display life in 1642. Includes a pottery producing accurate copies of 17th century pottery.
www.friarhouse.co.uk
- Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall - Closed in 1990, now a preserved mining site managed by The Trevithick Trust. Visitor information.
www.chycor.co.uk/tourism/cata-guest/geevor/geevor_mine.htm
- Ironbridge Gorge Museums - The Shropshire site of the birth of the Industrial Revolution has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Visitor information and a virtual tour.
www.ironbridge.org.uk
- Living History Village 1642 - Gosport Living History Society recreate English rural life in the South of England during 1642 in the village of Little Woodham. Photograph and visitor information.
www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/village.htm
- Milestones - Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
www.milestones-museum.com
- Museum of East Anglian Life - St Osyth's Priory, Essex, owned the manor of Stowmarket and built the 13th-century barn which forms the centrepiece of this open air museum. Other vernacular buildings have been rescued and moved to the site.
www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/tourism/meal
- Museum of Welsh Life - In the 100-acre parkland of St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house, are over 30 buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how the people of Wales lived at various times in history. Visitor information, events, collections.
www.nmgw.ac.uk/mwl
- National Showcaves Centre for Wales - The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.
www.dan-yr-ogof-showcaves.co.uk
- Norfolk Rural Life Museum and Union Farm - At a former workhouse at Gressenhall you can see recreations of craftsmans workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.
www.norfolk.gov.uk/tourism/museums/nrlm.htm
- Peat Moors Centre - Near Glastonbury has reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses, prehistoric trackways, Roman pottery kilns and an Iron Age canoe. Details and visitor information from Somerset County Council.
www.somerset.gov.uk/levels/PMVC.htm
- Ryedale Folk Museum - Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.
www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
- The Big Dig - This huge archaeological excavation of Whitefriars, Canterbury has a viewing walkway and visitor centre. History, location and visitor information provided by Land Securities. Continuing until 2004.
www.bigdig.co.uk
- The Golden Hinde - Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, a living history museum currently moored on the river Thames in London. Opening, school tours, groups.
www.goldenhinde.co.uk
- Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - Over 40 historic buildings from south-east England have been rescued from destruction, dismantled and reconstructed on the site at Chichester, Sussex, including a medieval shop, a timber-framed farmhouse, a market hall and a Victorian school.
www.wealddown.co.uk/index.htm
- West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village - Uses its 125 acres to explain the history of the land and its wildlife. The early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated.
www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/wstowmain.htm
- World Naval Base - Photographs and description of the naval history on display at the former dockyard in Chatham: historic buildings, traditional skills, ships, lifeboats. Visitor information supplied by medwaytowns.com.
www.medwaytowns.com/dockyard.html
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