Enjoy a Year of Action-Packed Events in 2025!

January 30th 2025

Whether you’re serious about steam, crazy about cars or hooked on horses, our programme of 2025 events has something for everyone!

The museum’s Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime is being performed in the 1950s welfare hall each weekend until 16th February 2025, oh yes it is! Pre-booking essential, get your tickets here.

Explore Creativity in the Coalfield during February Half Term, from 22nd February to 2nd March. Visitors can learn about local artists and writers and their links to the region’s mining heritage. See art objects from the museum’s collection and have a go at sketching.

Join in with Suffragette rallies in The 1900s Town and see an exhibition from the Women’s Institute during the International Women’s Day event, on 8th and 9th March.

Take part in a whole host of science activities across the museum during Science Weekend on 15th and 16th March and treat your mam to a great day out for Mothering Sunday on 30th March.

See marvellous Meccano creations on 5th and 6th April, discover the origins of Carlin Sunday on 6th April and the Sunderland & District Classic Vehicle Society will be putting on a fantastic display of vehicles on 13th April.

Enjoy a cracking day out during the museum’s traditional Easter Celebrations, 12th to 21st April.

Take part in traditional May Day Celebrations on 4th and 5th May, mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on 8th May.

Learn about the making and fitting of horseshoes during Farrier Training Day on the Welfare of Donkeys on 13th May and see a display of Napoleonic Muster on 17th and 18th May.

Find out about the museum’s award-wining Health and Wellbeing work during Dementia Action Week, 19th to 25th May. The museum runs activities for people living with dementia and long-term health conditions, as well as to help with mental health, loneliness and isolation from specially-built facilities in The 1950s Town.

The museum will be celebrating Rail200 with a nine-day Festival of Transport during May Half Term, 24th May to 1st June.

Enjoy an equine extravaganza with Horses in Harness, on 7th and 8th June.

If you’re crazy about cars, Beamish has the perfect weekend for you. See the Morris Car Rally on 14th and 15th June, browse a fantastic display of cars during Classic Car Day by The North of England Classic and Pre-War Automobiles Club and see the 52nd Beamish Reliability run on 15th June. The run, for cars registered before 1956 and motorbikes registered before 1960, starts at Beamish and follows a 155-mile route around County Durham and North Yorkshire before returning to the museum.

Unleash your inner inventor with amazing science, technology, engineering and maths activities during Crank it Up! on 5th and 6th July.

New for 2025, the museum will be holding A Collier’s Life: At Work and Play on 5th and 6th July, an event which will celebrate the region’s mining heritage and discover more about the lives of colliery communities.

There will be a whole host of activities taking place during the summer, from 19th July to 1st September.

Green-fingered folk and creative crafters are invited to enter homegrown produce and homemade items into the Beamish Challenge during the Horticultural Show in partnership with the North East Horticultural Society, 6th and 7th September.

See a remarkable carriage driving competition by the Concours d’International d’Attelage de Tradition (CIAT) take place around the museum on 13th and 14th September.

Visit The 1940s Farm to learn about the role of farming during the Second World War during Home Front, Home Farm, on 20th and 21st September, enjoy a Classic Car Rally weekend on 27th and 28th September, and take part in Harvest Celebrations on 4th and 5th October.

Enjoy family activities for October Half Term from 25th October to 2nd November, more details to be announced nearer the time.

Mark Remembrance Sunday with the museum’s annual Remembrance event on 9th November.

2025 will draw to a close with Christmas at Beamish, enjoy truly traditional celebrations at the museum!

Plus, there will be regular music from a whole host of bands and choirs, dance groups and cinema viewings in the Grand cinema in The 1950s Town throughout the year.

Paul Foster, Events Manager at Beamish Museum, said: “We’re looking forward to a packed programme of exciting events for 2025 and the introduction of some new events including A Collier’s Life: At Work and Play which will take place in July –make sure you put your Beamish Unlimited Pass to good use and experience all that Beamish Museum has to offer throughout the year!”

We opened new exhibits last year, don’t forget to visit the Drovers Tavern and Georgian pottery in the 1820s Landscape and call into the Grand cinema, Electrical Shop, toy shop and record shop in The 1950s Town.

Daytime events are included in museum admission and are free to Beamish Unlimited Pass holders and Friends of Beamish members, pay once and visit free for a year!

Find out more about the 2025 events here.