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There's Still Time to Enjoy a Fabulously Festive Visit to Beamish Museum This Christmas

December 19th 2025

There’s still time to enjoy Christmas at Beamish! From magical Christmas Daytimes to Twelfth Night Celebrations and the annual Beamish Pantomime, visitors can enjoy a whole host of exciting events and activities this Christmas.

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Funding for Beamish Museum to help increase access to collections

December 16th 2025

Beamish, The Living Museum of the North is celebrating being awarded £49,000 from Art Fund, the national charity for museums and galleries, to improve access to its collections.

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Schoolchildren have designs on homes of the future

December 15th 2025

More than 200 North East schoolchildren shared their vision for homes of the future during a visit to Beamish.

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Beamish Museum and Durham University jointly hosted astronaut Naoko Yamazaki for Space Encounters

December 8th 2025

Beamish Museum and Durham University jointly organized Space Encounters – an Evening with Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, earlier this year. The event welcomed Naoko, former JAXA astronaut onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station, to Beamish's 1820s Landscape.

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Enjoy Unforgettable Festive Celebrations at Beamish Museum

November 13th 2025

Step back in time and enjoy the magic of Christmas past at Beamish Museum from Saturday, 22nd November to Wednesday, 24th December.

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National campaign encourages holidaymakers to make Durham their Next Stop

October 28th 2025

Beamish Museum is working with Visit County Durham as they launch a major national destination marketing campaign to inspire consumers to make Durham their next stop for a staycation.

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Bank of England Governor at Beamish Museum for business leaders’ event

October 8th 2025

The Governor of the Bank of England visited Beamish, The Living Museum of the North for an event attended by the region’s business leaders.

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All Creatures Great and Small visit Beamish Museum

September 26th 2025

We were thrilled to welcome the cast and crew of All Creatures Great and Small to the museum for filming of series six!

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New community allotments bloom at Beamish, thanks to Banks Community Fund

September 26th 2025

Community allotments for health and wellbeing and education programmes have been opened at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, supported by funding from the Banks Group.

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Train leaving Etherley Station, Witton Park, with passengers bound for Wembley for the 1954 Amateur Cup Final.

Tales from the Rails Week Six: Cup Finals (25th August – 1st September)

August 26th 2025

As part of our Tales from the Rails event, Connor Emerson, Curator of Social History at the museum, talks about this week’s theme of Cup Finals.

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Tales from the Rails Week Five: Evacuees (18th – 24th August)

August 21st 2025

As part of our Tales from the Rails event, Senior Curator Seb Littlewood talks about this week’s theme of evacuees.

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Tales from the Rails Week Four: The General Strike (11th – 17th August)

August 13th 2025

As part of our Tales from the Rails event, Jonathan Kindleysides, Head of Industry at the museum, highlights objects from the museum’s collection relating to this week’s theme of The General Strike.

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