Black Country Living Museum

read moreWe currently plan to re-open in early April 2021. News of our re-opening date will be published on our website and social media in due course, so please do check for updates.

read moreAn immersive experience from start to finish, Black Country Living Museum is an award-winning open air museum that tells the story of one of the very first industrialised landscapes in Britain. Set across 26 acres, you'll explore over forty carefully reconstructed shops, houses and industrial areas that represent the Black Country's story. You'll learn how steam power, human ingenuity and an increasingly interconnected world transformed this region into a manufacturing powerhouse.

read moreWe are proud to be an independent, educational charity. However, this means that we have to raise nearly all of our funding requirements through admission fees, our shops and cafes and generous donations from our visitors and supporters. To make a regular gift or donate by cheque, please get in touch with the Development team on 0121 557 9523 or email development@bclm.com.

read moreBlack Country Living Museum is one of Europe's most successful open-air museums. Our strategic view is that our success originates from being an independent heritage business, and giving equal weight to our purpose as a museum, charity, and visitor attraction. The Museum is also regularly used for TV and Film locations, and hosts some fantastic seasonal and themed events including our 1940s Weekend and Peaky Blinders Nights. These are exciting times for the Museum as we are currently embarking upon the single largest development in our 40-year history, with a multi-million pound investment taking our story into the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

read moreHistorically, the Black Country played a vital role in the nation's industrial history. This was the world's first industrial landscape and one of the most intensely industrialised regions of the UK. The Museum preserves a section of the Black Country's industrial landscape, including two mine shafts, limekilns and a canal arm. The Museum has relocated buildings into our canalside village, which have been drawn from across the many small towns of the region. Each house, shop and workshop has been filled with collections, from sad irons to nails, that would have been seen in situ from the 1800s to 1940s.

read moreVisit our Museum gift shop or shop online to choose from a range of Black Country inspired gifts as a treat for yourself, friends and family. Choose from a wide range of Museum souvenirs, traditional homeware, local artists' prints and canvases, local history and general interest books, cards and gifts. The Museum gift shop is located at the entrance to the Museum and can be accessed without paid entry.

read moreWe need your support to help us recover. To help preserve Black Country heritage and the valued work we do with schools, community groups and volunteers, now and in the future, please make a donation or support us in one of the ways below.

read moreThe NHS will contact you if you are due to receive your vaccine - vaccines cannot be booked via the Museum staff. Please refer to the NHS Vaccination Service directly. Please do not visit the Museum for a vaccine if you have not booked an appointment following receipt of your invitation letter from the NHS. Please note we are unable to deal with any inquiries about the vaccination centre and appointments, as administration for the centre is handled directly by the NHS.