Black Country Museum

The Black Country Living Museum is a heritage site dedicated to the industrial past of the midlands, particularly the Dudley Area. The site was a former railway goods yard and in its expansion now also covers the site of a disused coal mine and lime kilns. As a Living musuem, its staff are dedicated to living the life of the role of a person from the era represented by the museum, which I understand to be the early 1900s. The area consists of what can be loosely termed I suppose as a typical urban area of the period. So we have shops, school, church, factories, a coal mine, houses, and even a funfair. The site is set next to a canal and ...  Read the complete review

The Black Country Museum located in Dudley, West Midlands was opened in 1978. I first visited the Museum on a school trip and unlike some of my former class-mates I was engrossed with every aspect of the place. Since that first trip I have been back several times. The current admission prices are £12.95 for an adult, £6.95 for children (under 5's go free) and there is £1.00 charge for the car park. Once inside the museum there is an exhibition area with an introduction to the Black Country, you can then walk or take a tram or trolley bus to the main village. This is where houses and shops have been rebuilt, all occupied by volunteers of the museum ...  Read the complete review

Firstly my situation, I have two children, two girls, one aged 4 and the other aged 1. Also a wife who is easily amused and just happy to get out the house! I first visited the Black Country Museum some 12 years ago, it was a school trip and I don't recall much of it just that it was a big place and not as boring as everyone suggested it would be. Location Situated in the heart of the Midlands, around 3 miles from Dudley town centre and not far off the M5. It is well signposted for map readers. Price The most important thing! I believe for what we paid we couldn't of got much better. Very reasonable and would return again ...  Read the complete review

The Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley, West Midlands (from Junction 2 of M5 take A4123 and follow signs for Dudley or from junction 10 of M6 – keep an eye out for the brown and white tourist signs.) is an open-air museum covering some 26 acres, and is a living record of how life used to be in this area in the 19th and early 20th centuries. For those who don't know, the Black Country is a region which encompasses Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, as well as the smaller towns of Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Old Hill and Cradley.It is to the west of, but does not include, Birmingham (Never call a Black Countryman or woman a Brummie – they will take ...  Read the complete review

I happened to notice that no one has written an opinion about The Black Country Living Museum located here in the Midlands so I thought I’d better rectify the situation. As usual with this type of opinion I sat with a notebook first and wrote down all the things I could remember from my last visit about two years ago and I came up with quite a long list! So, I suggest you make yourself a cup of tea and settle down, you may be here for some time! The Black Country Museum is situated near to Dudley town centre in the heart of the Black Country (now there’s a surprise!) It is 3 miles from junction 2 of the M5 and 5 miles from junction 10 of the ...  Read the complete review