Web Directory

» Amberley Museum, West Sussex
   Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.
   http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/

» Archaeolink Prehistory Park
   Aims to present prehistory through a mixture of reconstructions, actual sites and an indoor centre: the archaeodome. Located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
   http://www.archaeolink.co.uk/

» Avoncroft: Museum of Historic Buildings
   Includes a brief history, opening times, a diary of special events, details of educational and school trip provision, and information about volunteer work at the museum.
   http://www.avoncroft.org.uk/

» Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum
   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.
   http://www.beamish.org.uk/

» Bede's World
   The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the great scholar Bede (AD 673-735). Experimental recreation of an Anglo-Saxon farm.
   http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/

» Black Country Living Museum
   Heritage of the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators. Tour via interactive map.
   http://www.bclm.co.uk

» Burns National Heritage Park
   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.
   http://www.burnsheritagepark.com

» Butser Ancient Farm
   Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.
   http://www.butser.org.uk/

» Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort
   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.
   http://www.castellhenllys.com/

» Chiltern Open Air Museum
   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.
   http://www.coam.org.uk/

» Flag Fen
   At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor informatio
   http://flagfen.org

» Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall
   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.
   http://www.geevor.com/

» Gower Heritage Centre
   Based around a 12th-century water powered corn mill in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Attractions include craft shops, play areas and farm animals. Map and description.
   http://www.gowerheritagecentre.co.uk/

» Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
   At a former workhouse at Gressenhall visitors can see recreations of craftsman's workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.
   http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=200.50

» Ironbridge Gorge Museums
   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.
   http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/

» Milestones
   Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
   http://www3.hants.gov.uk/milestones

» Museum of East Anglian Life
   St Osyth's Priory, Essex, owned the manor of Stowmarket and built the 13th-century barn which forms the centrepiece of this open air museum. Other vernacular buildings have been rescued and moved to the site.
   http://www.eastanglianlife.org.uk/

» Ryedale Folk Museum
   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.
   http://www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/

» Saxon House
   A recreation of an Anglo-Saxon house built at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Includes history, the story of its construction, photographs and visitor information.
   http://www.saxonhouse.co.uk/

» Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum
   At the eastern end of Hadrians Wall, now Wallsend. History, images, events and visitor information from Brian Rootham.
   http://hadrians-wall.info/hadrianswall/segedunum/

» St Fagans: National History Museum
   In the 100-acre parkland of St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house, are over 30 buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how the people of Wales lived at various times in history. Visitor information, events, collectio
   http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/

» The Golden Hinde
   Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, a living history museum currently moored on the river Thames in London. Opening, school tours, groups.
   http://www.goldenhinde.com/

» The Historic Dockyard Chatham
   Records 400 years of Royal Naval history with 47 scheduled ancient monuments on the 80-acre site. Visitor information, events and facility hire.
   http://www.thedockyard.co.uk/

» The Ulster History Park
   General information and schedule.
   http://www.ballynagarrick.net/historicireland/HI901.htm

» Tullibody History Group
   Visitor information, location, and images. Located in Scotland.
   http://www.tullibody-history.org.uk

» Ulster American Folk Park
   An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Located in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
   http://www.nmni.com/uafp

» Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
   Set in over 170 acres of rolling countryside, this outdoor museum tells the story of life in early 20th century Ulster. Includes visitor information and guide to what's on.
   http://www.nmni.com/uftm

» Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
   Over 40 historic buildings from south-east England have been rescued from destruction, dismantled and reconstructed on the site at Chichester, Sussex, including a medieval shop, a timber-framed farmhouse, a market hall and a Victorian school.
   http://www.wealddown.co.uk/

» West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village
   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.
   http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/play/weststow-asv.cfm