The Sunday Times has named Beamish Museum, Durham, as one of the world’s coolest museums:
Beamish Museum was featured alongside Science Museum, London and the Kennedy Space Centre, Orlando in it's list of the 'World's 12 Coolest Museums'.
Beamish Museum was featured alongside Science Museum, London and the Kennedy Space Centre, Orlando in it's list of the 'World's 12 Coolest Museums'.
"Forget tired old artefacts in dusty old display cases. The 21st-century museum visit is a whizz-bang affair, involving thrilling spaces packed with interactive technology, where you’re urged to grapple head-on with the mysteries of science and nature, history and art. Here are the world’s best.
Forget Doctor Who — time travel comes no more enthralling than the epic open-air museum at Beamish. Upon entering, you lurch back a century or so, into a lovingly created facsimile of Edwardian life in the northeast of England, including a colliery village, a working farm, a railway station, a pub, a bank and a bandstand, with clanking trams to catch and real-life horse manure to step in.
A community of flat-capped guides — nice touch, that — occupies the town at all times, and our favourite moment comes when you crouch in the damp and dark, listening for the telltale and slightly scary noises that warned a drift miner his tunnel was about to collapse, burying him alive."
Forget Doctor Who — time travel comes no more enthralling than the epic open-air museum at Beamish. Upon entering, you lurch back a century or so, into a lovingly created facsimile of Edwardian life in the northeast of England, including a colliery village, a working farm, a railway station, a pub, a bank and a bandstand, with clanking trams to catch and real-life horse manure to step in.
A community of flat-capped guides — nice touch, that — occupies the town at all times, and our favourite moment comes when you crouch in the damp and dark, listening for the telltale and slightly scary noises that warned a drift miner his tunnel was about to collapse, burying him alive."
Source: Sunday Times, 18th October 2009
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