With a summer of fun-filled activities and exciting new exhibits to explore, enjoy amazing days out at Beamish Museum. Each day until September 3, visitors to the County Durham open air museum can enjoy a changing programme of events, with everything from den building and baking demonstrations to milking a wooden cow and enjoying 1950s fun and games, including a 1950s-quiz in the 1950s welfare hall on Mondays and Wednesdays! On Wednesdays, head to the Masonic Hall in The 1900s Town to design your own theatre/cinema playbill poster, before heading to the museum’s new cinema, a recreation of the Grand from Ryhope, Sunderland, to experience a 1950s trip to the pictures! The 1950s toy shop includes a dolls' hospital (Image: Beamish Museum) There’ll be a special opportunity to get a 1940s hairdo at the Land Girls’ cottage at The 1940s Farm each Thursday (small extra fee applies). It’s all fun and games at 1820s Pockerley Old Hall every Friday.
There’s also the Drovers Tavern, which opened in The 1820s Landscape in June, which serves Georgian-inspired food and drink. Don’t forget to have a go at pottery-making in Beamish Museum’s new Georgian pottery exhibit! On Suffragette Sundays, get involved in the campaign for women’s right to vote at 11am, 2pm and 3pm in The 1900s Town. As well as the museum’s packed summer programme of activities, visitors can enjoy Attelage Horse Weekend (July 20-21), Meccano Exhibition (July 20-21), Beamish Tractor Show (July 27-28).
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