Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.

Over 20 historic buildings, including a windmill, have been dismantled and re-erected on this site in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester.

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.

The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the great scholar Bede (AD 673-735). Experimental recreation of an Anglo-Saxon farm.

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.

The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him. Description, biography, events, kid's zone.

Rural history museum depicting life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens. Photographs and details of the buildings, which include an early 19th-century windmill, history, news and events.

Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.

This reconstructed Iron Age hillfort still has excavation going on each summer. Iron Age roundhouses and livestock. How to get there, online tour, how to build a roundhouse, education and events.

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.

The site at Waterside, by Patna, Ayrshire was a Victorian ironworks.

At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information.

Closed as a working mine in 1990, it is now a preserved mining site and museum managed by Pendeen Community Heritage. Includes history and visitor information.

Based around a 12th-century water powered corn mill in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Attractions include craft shops, play areas and farm animals. Map and description.

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.

Gosport Living History Society recreate English rural life in the South of England during 1642 in the village of Little Woodham. Photograph and visitor information.

Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday 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.

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.

The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.

At a former workhouse at Gressenhall you can see recreations of craftsman's workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.

Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.

Includes information on the Peat Moors Centre near Glastonbury which has reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses, prehistoric trackways, Roman pottery kilns and an Iron Age canoe.

Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, a living history museum currently moored on the river Thames in London. Opening, school tours, groups.

Located in Omagh in Northern Ireland. The park is an open air museum dedicated to the presentation of the history of human settlement in Ireland over the last 10,000 years.

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.

Uses its 125 acres to explain the history of the land and its wildlife. The early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated.

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.