Living history museums offer a unique window into the past, allowing us to experience history in a tangible and engaging way. In Britain, these museums preserve traditional crafts, trades, and ways of life that might otherwise be lost to time. By recreating historical environments and practices, they ensure that future generations can connect with and learn from Britain’s rich cultural heritage. Protecting and supporting living history museums is essential for keeping history alive, as they play a crucial role in educating the public and preserving knowledge of how our ancestors lived and worked.
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Heritage Experiences: Living History Museums
| Business Name | Contact Person | Address-1 | Address-2 | Suburb | Postcode | Country | Website | Phone | |
| Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet | Leader House, Surrey Street | Sheffield | S1 2LH | England | https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/abbeydale-industrial-hamlet/ | info@sheffieldmuseums.org.uk | 0114 278 2600 | ||
| Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre | New Barn Road, Amberley | Near Arundel | BN18 9LT | England | https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/ | office@amberleymuseum.co.uk | 01798 831370 | ||
| Anne of Cleves House | 52 Southover High Street | Lewes | BN7 1JA | England | https://sussexpast.co.uk/attraction/anne-of-cleves-house/ | lucymumbray@sussexpast.co.uk | 01273 474610 | ||
| Auchindrain Township | Auchindrain, Argyll | Inveraray | PA32 8WD | Scotland | http://www.auchindrain.org.uk/ | info@auchindrain.org.uk | 01499 500235 | ||
| Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings | Stoke Heath, Worcestershire | Bromsgrove | B60 4JR | England | https://avoncroft.org.uk/ | contacts@avoncroft.org.uk | 01527 831363 | ||
| Beamish Living Museum of the North | Simon Woolley | Regional Resource Centre | Beamish | DH9 0RG | England | https://www.beamish.org.uk/ | museum@beamish.org.uk simonwoolley@beamish.org.uk |
0191 370 4000 | |
| Black Country Living Museum | Discovery Way | Dudley | DY1 4AL | England | https://bclm.com/ | info@bclm.com | 0121 557 9643 | ||
| Blists Hill Victorian Town | England | https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/visit/blists-hill-victorian-town/ | 01952 433 424 | ||||||
| Butser Ancient Farm | Simon Jay | Chalton Lane, Hampshire | Petersfield | PO8 0BG | England | https://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/ | hello@butserancientfarm.co.uk | 23 9259 8838 | |
| Castell Henllys Iron Age Village | Castell Henllys, Meline | Pembrokeshire | SA41 3UR | England | https://www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henllys/ | enquiries@castellhenllys.com | |||
| Celtic Harmony | Brickendon Lane | Brickendon | SG13 8NY | England | https://www.celticharmony.org/ | Info@celticharmony.org | (01438) 718 543 | ||
| Chiltern Open Air Museum | Newland Park , Gorelands Lane | Chalfont St Peter | HP8 4AB | England | https://www.coam.org.uk/ | enquiries@coam.org.uk | 01494 871 117 | ||
| Church Farm Museum | Church Road South | Skegness | PE25 2HF | England | https://www.churchfarmvillage.org/ | thevillageskegness1@outlook.com | 01754 766658 | ||
| Cogges Manor Farm Museum | Church Lane | Witney | OX28 3LA | England | https://www.cogges.org.uk/ | ops@cogges.org.uk | 1993 772602 | ||
| Cosmeston Medieval Village | Karen Child | Lavernock Road | Penarth | CF64 5UY | Wales | https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/enjoying/Coast-and-Countryside/cosmeston-lakes-country-park/cosmeston-medieval-village/Cosmeston-Medieval-Village.aspx | cosmestonlakes@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk | 029 2070 1678 | |
| Crich Tramway Village | Crich Tramway Village | Matlock | DE4 5DP | England | https://www.tramway.co.uk/ | enquiry@tramway.co.uk | 01773 854 321 | ||
| Eden Camp Yorkshire | Eden Camp | Malton | YO17 6RT | England | https://www.edencamp.co.uk/ | admin@edencamp.co.uk | (01653) 915214 | ||
| Fishbourne Roman Palace | Sarah Parker | Roman Way West Sussex | Chichester | PO19 3QR | England | https://sussexpast.co.uk/attraction/fishbourne-roman-palace/ | SarahParker@sussexpast.co.uk | 01243 785859 | |
| Flag Fen | The Droveway, Northey Road | Peterborough | PE6 7QJ | England | https://flagfen.org.uk// | flagfen@peterboroughlimited.co.uk | (0) 1733 864 468 | ||
| Great Central Railway | Great Central Road | Loughborough | LE11 1RW | England | https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/ | sales@gcrailway.co.uk | 01509 632323 | ||
| Highland Folk Museum | Scotland | https://www.highlifehighland.com/highlandfolkmuseum/ | highland.folk@highlifehighland.com | 01349 781650 | |||||
| Historic Dockyard Chatham | Fitted Rigging House Anchor Wharf | 1st Floor North | Chatham | ME4 4TZ | England | https://thedockyard.co.uk/ | info@chdt.org.uk | 44 (0) 1634 823800 | |
| Jarrow Hall | Church Bank, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear | South Shields | NE32 3DY | England | https://jarrowhall.com/ | jarrowhall@groundwork.org.uk | 07966 330 022 | ||
| Jorvik Viking Centre | 19 Coppergate Walk | York | YO1 9WT | England | https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/ | jorvik@yorkat.co.uk | 01904 615505 | ||
| Kent Life Heritage Farm Park | Lock Lane Sandling | Maidstone | ME14 3AU | England | https://kentlife.org.uk/ | enquiries@kentlife.org.uk | 01622 763936 | ||
| Kirbuster Farm Museum | Hundland Road | Birsay | KW17 2LR | Scotland | https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/kirbuster-farm-museum/ | 01856 771268 | |||
| Little Woodham Living History Village | Barrington Close Hampshire | Gosport | PO13 8NZ | England | https://www.littlewoodham.org.uk/ | ||||
| Llancaiach Fawr | Gelligaer Road | Nelson | CF46 6ER | England | https://www.llancaiachfawr.co.uk/en/ | llancaiachfawr@Caerphilly.gov.uk | 01443 412248 | ||
| Manor Farm Country Park | Southampton | SO30 2EQ | England | https://www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/countryparks/manorfarm | |||||
| Mary Arden’s Farm | Station Road | Wilmcote | CV37 9UN | England | https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/mary-ardens-farm/ | ||||
| Milestones Museum | Leisure Park Churchill Way West | Basingstoke | RG22 6PG | England | https://www.milestonesmuseum.org.uk/ | milestones.museum@hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk | 01256 639550 | ||
| Morwellham Quay | Tavistock | PL19 8JL | England | https://www.morwellham-quay.co.uk/ | admin@morwellhamquay.org | 01822 832766 | |||
| National Coal Mining Museum for England | Caphouse Colliery, New Road | Overton | WF4 4RH | England | https://www.ncm.org.uk/ | info@ncm.org.uk | 01924 848 806 | ||
| National Museum of Rural Life | Philipshill Road | East Kilbride | G76 9HR | England | https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-rural-life | 0300 123 6789 | |||
| New Lanark | World Heritage Site | South Lanarkshire | ML11 9DB | Scotland | https://www.newlanark.org/ | trust@newlanark.org | 01555 661 345 | ||
| Quarry Bank Mill | Styal | Wilmslow | SK9 4HP | England | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/quarry-bank | quarrybank@nationaltrust.org.uk | 1625527468 | ||
| Rural Life Living Museum | Reeds Road, Tilford | Farnham | GU10 2DL | England | https://rural-life.org.uk/ | info@rural-life.org.uk | 01252 795571 | ||
| Ryedale Folk Museum | Hutton le Hole | YO62 6UA | England | https://www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/ | info@ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk | 01751 417367 | |||
| Shipwreck Museum Charlestown | Quay Road, Charlestown | St. Austell | PL25 3NJ | England | https://shipwreckcharlestown.co.uk/ | info@shipwreckcharlestown.com | 01726 69897 | ||
| Skye Museum of Island Life | Kilmuir | By Portree | IV51 9UE | Scotland | http://www.skyemuseum.co.uk/ | info@skyemuseum.co.uk | 44(0) 1470 552 206 | ||
| St Fagans National Museum of History | Cardiff | Wales | https://museum.wales/stfagans/ | ||||||
| Stansted Mountfitchet Castle & Norman Village of 1066 | Mountfitchet Castle, Essex | Stansted Mountfitchet | CM24 8SP | England | https://mountfitchetcastle.com/ | info@mountfitchetcastle.com | (0)1279 813237 | ||
| The Food Museum | Iliffe Way | Stowmarket | IP14 1DL | England | http://www.foodmuseum.org.uk/ | enquiries@foodmuseum.org.uk | 01449 612229 | ||
| The Gearrannan Blackhouses | 5A Garenin, Isle of Lewis | Carloway | HS2 9AL | Scotland | https://www.gearrannan.com/ | info@gearrannan.com | 01851 643416 | ||
| The Lincolnsfields Centre | Bushey Hall Drive | Bushey | WD23 2ES | England | https://www.lincolnsfields.co.uk/ | info@lincolnsfields.co.uk | 01923 233841 | ||
| The Scottish Crannog Centre | Nicholas Grant | Dalerb, Kenmore, Aberfeldy | Perthshire | PH15 2NX | Scotland | https://www.crannog.co.uk/ | info@crannog.co.uk | (0)1887 440231 | |
| Titanic Quarter | 1 Olympic Way, Queen’s Road | Belfast | BT3 9EP | Northern Ireland | https://www.titanicbelfast.com/explore/titanic-quarter/ | media@titanicbelfast.com groups@titanicbelfast.com |
44 (0)28 9076 6386 | ||
| Ulster American Folk Park | Kathryn Thomson | 2 Mellon Rd | Omagh | BT78 5QU | Northern Ireland | https://www.ulsteramericanfolkpark.org/ | info@nationalmuseumsni.org | 028 8224 3292 | |
| Ulster Folk Museum | Colin Catney | 153 Bangor Rd, Cultra | Holywood | BT18 0EU | Northern Ireland | https://www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/ | info@nationalmuseumsni.org | 44 (0) 28 9042 8428 | |
| Weald & Downland Living Museum | Town Lane, Singleton | Chichester | PO18 0EU | England | https://www.wealddown.co.uk/ | office@wealddown.co.uk | 01243 811363 | ||
| West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Country Park | Icklingham Road | West Stow | IP28 6HG | England | https://www.weststow.org/ | 01284 728718 | |||
| Wimpole Home Farm | Wimpole Estate, Orwell | Royston | SG8 0BW | England | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/wimpole-estate/explore-wimpole-home-farm | ||||
| Wroxeter Roman City | Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire | Shrewsbury | SY5 6PH | England | https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wroxeter-roman-city/ | 1743 761330 | |||
| York Castle Museum | Kathryn Blacker | Eye of York | York | YO1 9RY | England | https://www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/ | 01904 687687 | ||
| Yorkshire Museum of Farming | Murton Ln | York | YO19 5UF | England | https://www.murtonpark.co.uk/museum/ |
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