Museums Open Air and Living History

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  • Amberley Working Museum  - Dedicated to the industrial heritage of the south-east. Also includes exhibit overview and virtual gallery.
  • Archaeolink Prehistory Park  - Located in Aberdeenshire, near the Bennachie mountain range, the living history park and tourist attraction has a focus on education, participation and fun. Included is a map and directions to the park, a calendar of events and admission prices, as well as historical articles relating to the exhibits.
  • Auchindrain Museum  - An open air Highland township museum highlighting the unique Argyll heritage. Details of the township and its people with visiting information.
  • Avoncroft  - Dedicated to historic buildings spanning from seven centuries. Plus events page and visitor information.
  • Bede's World  - The museum of early medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Showcases interactive museum activities and exhibitions. With school program details and price list.
  • Black Country Museum  - Explore the urban heritage park with admission price details and operational hour information.
  • Butser Ancient Farm  - Features the pictures, highlights, and historical details of the Iron Age farm replica.
  • Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort  - A prehistoric promontory fort in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park displaying buildings reconstructed on the original foundations. With archaeological information, activity listing and related articles.
  • Chiltern Open Air Museum  - Highlights the Buckinghamshire farm and its animals, buildings, events and courses for adults and children.
  • Flag Fen  - Archaeology park and bronze age centre, home to a preserved ritual causeway and platform as well as roundhouse reconstructions. Includes visitor information and details of experimental archaeology events.
  • Geevor Tin Mine  - Chronicles the mining history in Cornwall. With visitor information.
  • Gower Heritage Centre  - Showcases the rural life museum based around a working 12th century water-mill. With crafts gallery.
  • Highland Folk Museum  - A living history museum on two sites, with re-constructed buildings, a 1700s 'Township', and a 1940s working farm, celebrating older ways of life in the Scottish Highlands. Includes information about their collections, programmes, and admissions.
  • The Highland Pictish Trail  - Offers a guide to a trail exploring the remains and monuments of the Picts in the eastern Highlands of Scotland; in PDF format.
  • The Historic Dockyard Chatham  - Tour the dockyard with galleon ships and facility rental information. Plus news updates.
  • Ironbridge Gorge Museums  - The Shropshire birthplace of the industrial revolution, awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO. Provides information on the ten museums, highlights of the collections, and learning resources.
  • Little Woodham  - Living history museum set in the year 1642, with costumed interpreters. Located in Gosport, Hants.
  • Milestones Museum  - Features Hampshire open-air museum highlighting the Victorian times and the 1930s. With group booking details.
  • Museum of East Anglian Life  - Discover the history of old East Anglia. With tour and educational program details.
  • National Museum of Rural Life  - Scottish countryside museum set in a 1950s working farm with sheep, pigs, dairy cows and horses. Located in East Kilbride.
  • North Ings Farm Museum  - Offers information about this small museum in the Lincolnshire Fens, which specialises in agricultural machinery.
  • Pictavia Visitor Centre  - A centre in Brechin tells the story of Scotland's ancient Pictish tribes in the county of Angus; includes background history, events diary, a guide to the Pictish Trail through the county, learning resources, and opening times.
  • Ryedale Folk Museum  - Open air museum with buildings and displays illustrating life on the North York Moors. Includes a map with links to the buildings, and information for teachers and children.
  • The Scottish Crannog Centre  - A visitor and educational centre built around the reconstruction on Loch Tay of a crannog, an ancient loch-dwelling; includes information about their exhibitions, events, research, and training. [Kenmore, Perth and Kinross].
  • Ulster American Folk Park  - A 40 acre open air museum in Co Tyrone that explores the story of Irish emigration, with a guide to their collections and education programmes, visitor facilities, and opening times.
  • Ulster Folk & Transport Museum  - Describes the collections held at the museum near Holywood, illustrating rural and urban life, Irish railways, and road transport; includes a visitor guide, events diary, and details of their education services.
  • Weald and Downland Open Air Museum  - Dedicated to historic buildings in England. With virtual tour and list of daily activities.
  • West Stow Anglo Saxon Village  - Provides visitor information and details of events at this recreated village in West Suffolk.
  • Yorkshire Museum of Farming  - Describes the exhibitions, collections and events at Murton Park farming museum, which offers living history experiences cover the Romans, Dark Ages, Tudors and WWII.
 
 
 
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