Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
Uses its 125 acres to explain the history of the land and its wildlife. The early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated.
The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.
Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.
The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him. Description, biography, events, kid's zone.
This museum at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings.
This reconstructed Iron Age hillfort still has excavation going on each summer. Iron Age roundhouses and livestock. How to get there, online tour, how to build a roundhouse, education and events.
The Shropshire site of the birth of the Industrial Revolution has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Visitor information and a virtual tour.
Set over 300 acres of countryside in county Durham, the site vividly recreates life in Northern England in the 1800s and 1900s. Covers the social, agricultural and industrial history of the region.
Closed as a working mine in 1990, it is now a preserved mining site and museum managed by Pendeen Community Heritage. Includes history and visitor information.
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