Beamish - a whole year of visits for the price of one ticket

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Beamish, Stanley, County Durham DH9 0RG

Open daily but hours vary by season.

Check beamish.org.uk before visiting.

Free on-site parking 20–25 minutes from Newcastle via A693

Adult: approx. £22–26 / Child (5–16): approx. £14–17 / Under 5s: Free / Family tickets available

Suitable for all ages 0191 370 4000 | museum@beamish.org.uk

An award-winning open-air museum bringing the North East’s history to life across multiple period townscapes. Visitors can explore a 1900s pit village, 1900s town, 1940s farm, 1820s landscape, and the 1950s town. Working trams and buses operate throughout the site. Includes fairground rides, period shops, and costumed demonstrators. Multiple cafés and food outlets on-site.

https://www.beamish.org.uk

Adult: £33.00

Child (5-16): £20.00

Family (2 adults + 2 children): £82.00

Under 5s: Free

Open daily 10am - 5pm until 23rd October 2026

Address: Beamish Museum, Beamish, County Durham DH9 0RG

This one isn’t a single day out, it’s an actual annual pass disguised as an entry ticket, and

once you understand that the price makes a lot more sense.

Beamish is about 25 minutes from Newcastle, set across 350 acres of living history, and

every ticket doubles as an Unlimited Pass for a full 12 months. So while the entry price looks

steeper than some of our other venues, if you visit even two or three times a year it works

out cheaper per trip than most single-day attractions on this list.

This is a proper open air museum, not glass cases and information boards, but entire

reconstructed streets you walk straight into. The 1900s Pit Village, the Edwardian Town,

Pockerley Old Hall in its 1820s landscape, and the newer 1950s Town and Farm, all staffed

by costumed engagers who are genuinely in character, chatting with a 1900s shopkeeper or watching a blacksmith at work properly brings history to life for kids in a way a museum display never quite manages.

Vintage trams and buses run a circular route around the whole museum all day, which the

kids treated as a ride in itself, hopping on and off between areas rather than walking the fullsite. Our tip, skip the queue for the tram at opening and head straight down to the Pit Village instead, you’ll have it almost to yourselves before the crowds catch up.

Beamish is huge, so wear proper shoes, there’s a lot of ground to cover including cobbled streets. Food is available throughout in period style, we’re talking fish and chips cooked in beef dripping at the 1950s town, genuinely good, though it can add up for a family this size, so we packed a picnic and used the food as a treat rather than the main event. Dogs are welcome in outdoor areas but restricted indoors.

We spent a full 6 hours here and still didn’t get round everything, which given the Unlimited Pass just means we’ve got a good excuse to go back.

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