Over a couple of days we visited two very different but both totally amazing living history museums. The first, located in the northeast part of England was Beamish, the Living Museum of the North. The next day, it was Eden Camp in East Yorkshire. The Beamish is very large and spread out with different sections representing different times and life. There is a 1913 town, a 1950 village, 1940’s and 1950’s farms, a 1900 pit village and colliery, and a 1820’s great estate. Even with omnibuses and trams connecting each segment, we still couldn’t see it all in our one day there.
Eden Camp is a former WWII German Prison Camp. Instead of destroying it after the war, the whole camp was turned into a museum of life in Britain during the war, as well as a universal history of the war. Each hut represents different aspects, and several are interactive. My favorite hut was a recreation of London in the blitz. With sirens, burning buildings, smoke, blackout, explosions all around you, it was the closest experience I’ll ever have to living through it.
Both museums are worth doing if you ever get to the northeast part of England.
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