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December 2025

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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