What's On (Pre-booking Essential)

There are 20 colourful flowers blooming in the windows around Beamish, watch out for them as you travel around the museum

Watch demonstration shunting operations by one of the museum's colliery locomotives

Steam locomotive Coffee Pot No. 1 running on The Colliery Railway

See an impressive array of vehicles at the museum during our popular Classic Car Rally, on the museum’s Events Field.

Visitors will be able to admire traditional tractors as they travel around the museum during this special weekend

Enjoy fun-filled family activities from cricket and playground games, to a summer trail, den building and toasting marshmallows in the woods

Learn about Lumberjills, Land Girls, make do and mend and ration cooking, as you discover life on the Home Front during the Second World War

Join us and see impressive leek and vegetable displays by the Shield Row Allotment Society in our 1950s welfare hall

NEW FOR 2021! Join us as the Shield Row Allotment Society put on a stunning display of floral arrangements

See an impressive array of vehicles at the museum during our popular Classic Car Rally, on the museum’s Events Field

We’ll be running steam on our roads and rails, and the Friends of Beamish will be out on site with motorised vehicles and bicycles.

Marvel at displays and demonstrations of a range of traditional skills at the museum during our Heritage Skills Weekend.