View Images in: Black Country Living MuseumThe Black Country Living Museum is located in Dudley in the West Midlands in England. The museum occupies a 26 acre urban heritage park. It was first opened in 1976 and since then more and more exhibits have been added to it.
Electric trams and trolleybuses transport visitors from the entrance in a recreated factory to the village area with thirty buildings situated by the canal basin. Coal mine displays include underground workings, colliery surface buildings and a replica of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine. In all, forty-two separate displays have either been re-erected or built to old plans to create a living open air museum.
Houses, shops and public buildings have been rebuilt to create a single early 20th century street, peopled by staff in period costume. Some of these buildings are still used in their original function, such as the pub, the sweet shop, the church and the chippy. Others are faithful replicas of their last use, with goods in the windows. Still others are only shells of the originals, such as the bath house.
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