Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Is Beamish in Scotland?
It is included on Undiscovered Scotland because it is an utterly magnificent visitor attraction that should not be missed by anyone living in or passing through North-East England.
What has been filmed at Beamish Museum?
They've all visited Beamish. Documentaries by the dozen have filmed here – 'Rebuilding Britain', BBC 1's 'The History of the World' Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes, Ant & Dec's A History of Tyneside and a whole host of others. We've had crews from as far afield as Germany, the USA, Australia, Japan and Korea.