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English: Beamish Museum, County Durham, England. Horses with carriage in the courtyard of the stables in Town. In the background is the SE corner of the courtyard, with the large carriage shed on the left (east side), and the smaller one on the right (south side).
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. [ 3 ] By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch ...
English: Beamish Museum, County Durham, England.A busy scene sees no less than 5 reenactors and 3 modes of transport at the east and of the main street in Town.Almost obscured by all the activity, the building is the west facade of the bank.
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Beamish, previously named "Pit Hill", is a village in County Durham, England, situated to the north east of Stanley. The entrance to Beamish Museum The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood and is home to Beamish Museum , an open-air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century.
Dr Frank Atkinson CBE (13 April 1924 – 30 December 2014) was a British museum director and curator. Atkinson is best known for creating the Beamish Museum near Stanley, County Durham, an open-air 'living' museum on the history of the north of England with a focus on the changes brought to both urban and rural life by the industrialisation of the early 20th century.
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