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Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.
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Aims to present prehistory through a mixture of reconstructions, actual sites and an indoor centre. Includes Berryhill Iron Age hill fort and hut circle.
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Includes a brief history, opening times, a diary of special events, details of educational and school trip provision, and information about volunteer work at the museum.
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Set over 300 acres of countryside in county Durham, the site vividly recreates life in Northern England in the 1800s and 1900s. Covers the social, agricultural and industrial history of the region.
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The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the Venerable Bede (AD 673-735), one of the greatest scholars of the Early Middle Ages.
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Heritage of the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators. Tour via interactive map.
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The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him. Description, biography, events, kid's zone.
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Rural history museum depicting life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens. Includes opening times, exhibit map and information about bookings and directions.
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Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.
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This reconstructed Iron Age hillfort still has excavation going on each summer. Iron Age roundhouses and livestock. How to get there, online tour, how to build a roundhouse, education and events.
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Rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings. Full information on facilities and opening hours.
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At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information.
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Closed as a working mine in 1990, it is now a preserved mining site and museum managed by Pendeen Community Heritage. Includes history and visitor information.
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Based around a 12th-century water-powered corn mill. Attractions include craft shops, play areas and farm animals. Map and description.
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At a former workhouse at Gressenhall visitors can see recreations of craftsman's workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.
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Gosport Living History Society recreate English rural life in the South of England during 1642 in the village of Little Woodham. Photograph and visitor information.
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A living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
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St Osyth's Priory, Essex, owned the manor of Stowmarket and built the 13th-century barn which forms the centrepiece of this open air museum. Other vernacular buildings have been rescued and moved to the site.
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The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.
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Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.
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A recreation of an Anglo-Saxon house built at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Includes history, the story of its construction, photographs and visitor information.
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At the eastern end of Hadrians Wall, now Wallsend. History, images, events and visitor information from Brian Rootham.
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In the 100-acre parkland of St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house, are over 30 buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how the people of Wales lived at various times in history. Visitor information, events, collections.
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Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, a living history museum currently moored on the river Thames in London. Opening, school tours, groups.
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Records 400 years of Royal Naval history with 47 scheduled ancient monuments on the 80-acre site. Visitor information, events and facility hire.
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Official guide to the museums. Contains visitor information, virtual tour, news, and photographs.
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General information and schedule.
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Visitor information, location, and images. Located in Scotland.
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An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Set in over 170 acres of rolling countryside, this outdoor museum tells the story of life in early 20th century Ulster. Includes visitor information and guide to what's on.
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A unique collection of over 40 domestic and agricultural buildings dating from the 13th century to Victorian times. Includes virtual tour, visitor information, details of events, courses, educational visits and merchandise.
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Uses its 125 acres to explain the history of the land and its wildlife. The early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated.
