Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, UK

Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 54.881958, -1.659737.

Beamish, the Living Museum of the North is located at Regional Resource Centre, Beamish, County Durham, United Kingdom. It was established in 1950 and opened to the public in 1972. The museum is an awarded open-air living museum and has a collection of 304,000+ objects. It features a recreation of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian life in the early 20th century with costumed interpreters, period exhibits, buildings, trams and buses. Beamish was created by Frank Atkinson, who was a British museum director and curator. It had also famous guests such as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Anne, Princess Royal. There are a pub, a bakery, a department store, a motor garage, a tramway, a sweet shop, a masonic hall, a railway station, a signal box, a coal yard, and many others within the museum. There are also two stores in the area. Beamish was used as a filming location in the television series "Downton Abbey". Beamish Museum won the "European Museum of the Year Award" in 1987.

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The latitude of Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, UK is 54.881958, and the longitude is -1.659737. Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, UK is located at United Kingdom country in the Museums place category with the gps coordinates of 54° 52' 55.0488'' N and 1° 39' 35.0532'' W.