Beamish - The North of England Open Air Museum
The Collections
One of the most remarkable and fascinating features of Beamish is its collections. A policy of unselective collecting pursued in the museum's early years resulted in a wealth of material relating to the regional history being collected. Our Collections Online highlight an ever expanding selection from the vast object collections held at Beamish.

Select from one of the collections below:
Online Collections
The Online Collections are not limited by date but cover periods from the 1600s until the present day. They include all aspects of social and domestic life, farming and rural life, industrial and town life as well as transport and advertising. Browse here...
Audio History
Complementing the reference library and photographic archive is the audio history collection. Access the online
audio collection here...
Audio History
Beamish’s Printed Book Collection consists of some 64,000 published books of the late 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. Over 17,000 exisit in our online database. Search here...
Photo Archive
The photographic archive at Beamish consists of some 300,000 images representing everyday life in the North of England from 1860 to the present day. The collection illustrates towns and street scenes, rural life and farming scenes, industrial scenes of coal mining, lead mining, iron and steel as well as. View here...
Photo Archive
Beamish Museum’s reference library also houses a magnificent collection of trade catalogues of suppliers and manufacturers dated from around the 1820s up to the present day.
Access the online database here...

 
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