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A 26-acre, mostly outdoor, recreation of the local area during the last 100 years. It includes its own internal bus service, coal mine, funfair, canal port, rebuilt houses from the period and more traditional museum displays. You can easily spend a whole day living in the past. Recreation of the area's industrial history with walk down coal mine, funfair, village, houses, school, chapel, pub, chip shop, etc. Real buildings rebuilt. Also narrow boat trips into the caverns under Dudley's Castle Hill (additional fee).
The Black Country Living Museum is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is located in the centre of the Black Country, 10 miles (16 km) west of Birmingham. The museum occupies 10.5 hectares of former industrial land partly reclaimed from a former railway goods yard, disused lime kilns, canal arm and former coal pits.
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This modern museum tells the story of Dudley (and the wider Black Country) through time.
Tenpin bowling alley with an on-site snack bar, party deals, pool tables and arcade machines.
Boat trips and events centred around unique limestone mines, tunnels and caverns which date back 428 million years to the Silurian period.
Modern multiscreen cinema.
Acclaimed Hollywood film director James Whale.
Grade I listed 12th-century castle.