Live like a Victorian for a day

Beamish open air museum is unique in its size, it is the worlds largest open air museum. This means there are several streets and buildings to explore rather than a traditional inside exhibit. Beamish is huge and one of the worlds largest and tells the story of North East England in the late 19th and early 20th century. Due to the size Beamish is more like a theme park with different areas to explore. To get from one area to another there are free trams which run every few minutes, again these are period pieces. Every building in the museum has been taken from the local area and painstakingly taken down brick by brick and reassembled in the museum. The attention to detail is astonishing, every building is open for guests to go inside and there are also actors dressed up to tell the stories of the buildings and old inhabitants. Beamish is easily a full day visit and there are lots of good food and drink options inside, including a fish and chip shop which cooks them in exactly the same way as they did 100 years ago. Public transport to the museum is not the easiest and requires a bus transfer from Newcastle or Durham. However, driving to the museum is easy with lots of local signposts and large car parks which are well organised.