Beamish: The Living Museum of the North, one of Britain’s best-loved open air museums, has announced plans for a weekend of celebrations to mark its 40th birthday. It’s four decades since the first staff and artefacts arrived and work began on what has become North East England’s flagship visitor attraction. To mark the occasion, the museum is holding a whole weekend of celebrations on Saturday and Sunday, 3rd and 4th July 2010.
At Home Farm, there’s a delicious birthday cup cake for every visitor. Each day at noon there’ll be a parade of Beamish folk and vehicles around the site; a horse drawn carriage will lead a Suffragette march including a Model T Ford and a steam roller. At The Railway Station, there’s a photographic exhibition of forty years of Beamish and a slide show of archive photographs in the Masonic Hall.
A brass band will play in the Town park on Sunday afternoon and there’ll be an anniversary service in the pit village Methodist chapel each day at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm. There are family activities to enjoy too – make a period birthday card and have a go at identifying the mystery objects in the village school.
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