A unique open-air museum located in County Durham, UK, has won the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 award.
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, was founded in 1970 by Dr Frank Atkinson CBE, a British museum director and curator. Inspired by Scandinavian folk museums he'd visited in the early '50s, Atkinson wanted to document the vibrant (and fast-declining) industrial communities of North East England.
