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Collections of ancient or historic buildings, either original or reconstructed on a site or linked sites presented to the public in such a way as to increase understanding of the past located in the United Kingdom.

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• Amberley Museum, West Sussex

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

• Avoncroft: Museum of Historic Buildings

  http://www.avoncroft.org.uk/
  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.

• Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum

  http://www.beamish.org.uk/
  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.

• Bede's World

  http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/
  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.

• Black Country Living Museum

  http://www.bclm.co.uk/
  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.

• Burwell Museum & Windmill

  http://www.burwellmuseum.org.uk/
  Displays rare, vintage vehicles and has an old schoolroom and village shop. Provides information about the mill, visiting and membership.

• Butser Ancient Farm

  http://www.butser.org.uk/
  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.

• Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort

  http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/default.asp?PID=261
  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.

• Chiltern Open Air Museum

  http://www.coam.org.uk/
  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.

• Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

  http://www.geevor.com/
  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.

• Gower Heritage Centre

  http://www.gowerheritagecentre.co.uk/
  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.

• Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse

  http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_Us/Gressenhall_Farm_and_Workhouse/index.htm
  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.

• Ironbridge Gorge Museums

  http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/
  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.

• Milestones

  http://hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/milestones-museum
  Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.

• Mountfitchet Castle & Norman Village

  http://www.mountfitchetcastle.com/
  Take a guided tour of this national historic monument on its original ancient site. Includes a history, news, events, hours, fees, and details of school and group visits. Located in Essex, UK. [French, English, Spanish, Italian, and German]

• Moyse's Hall Museum & West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village

  https://www.weststow.org/
  Heritage sites in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Describes the sites and provides details of upcoming events and news.

• Museum of East Anglian Life

  http://eastanglianlife.org.uk/
  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.

• National Showcaves Centre for Wales

  http://www.showcaves.co.uk/
  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.

• Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

  http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/
  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.

• Ryedale Folk Museum

  http://www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/
  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.

• Saxon House

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

• Segedunum Roman Fort

  https://segedunumromanfort.org.uk/
  Roman Wallsend, the most completely excavated fort in Britain, lying at the eastern end of Hadrians Wall. The official site includes details of facilities, contact information, opening hours and entrance fee.

• St Fagans: National History Museum

  https://museum.wales/stfagans/
  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, collections.

• The Golden Hinde

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

• The Historic Dockyard Chatham

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

• Ulster American Folk Park

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

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

  http://www.nmni.com/uftm
  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.

• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum

  http://www.wealddown.co.uk/
  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.

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