10 things you ll know if you ve been to Beamish - from amazing fish & chips to being left handed
Beamish open air museum near Stanley is one of the North East s most popular attractions and for good reason
11:43, 22 MAY 2021
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Bus driver Terry Pinnegar at Beamish Museum. Picture: STUART BOULTON BEAMISH museum, Locomotion and Tyne & Wear Archives are amongst the North-East attractions welcoming people back as art galleries and museums reopen this May. Many museums and galleries around County Durham, Teesside and the wider North-East have not announced plans to reopen, with confirmation that Step 3 of the roadmap out of lockdown is going ahead coming just last night. But those preempting the green light to swing doors open and welcome back customers will be doing so from next week. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums has announced staggered reopening dates for its venues, with Laing Art Gallery and Great North Museum: Hancock, both in Newcastle, opening on May 17.
County Durham museum to undergo major transformation thanks to £1m grant A MUSEUM is set to be transformed thanks to a £975,500 grant to fund a major project. Beamish, near Stanley, has received a Capital Kickstart Fund award from the Government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund for its Remaking Beamish project that has been delayed as a result of the pandemic. Ambitious projects at 22 heritage organisations, including Beamish, will benefit from £13.5 million in targeted grants allocated by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restart planned work that now face delays or increased costs. The funding will be used for the restart and completion of the major Remaking Beamish project, which includes a 1950s town, 1950s farm and expansion of the 1820s area.