Surf these sites: 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. Avoncroft Museum of Buildings -- Over 20 historic buildings, including a windmill, have been dismantled and re-erected on this site in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester. 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. 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. 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. Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland -- The site at Waterside, by Patna, Ayrshire was a Victorian ironworks. 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. 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. Museum of Welsh Life -- 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. 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. World Naval Base -- Photographs and description of the naval history on display at the former dockyard in Chatham: historic buildings, traditional skills, ships, lifeboats. Visitor information supplied by medwaytowns.com.
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