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This modern museum tells the story of Dudley (and the wider Black Country) through time.
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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).
Tenpin bowling alley with an on-site snack bar, party deals, pool tables and arcade machines.
Modern multiscreen cinema.
Acclaimed Hollywood film director James Whale.
Zoo that opened in 1937.
Boat trips and events centred around unique limestone mines, tunnels and caverns which date back 428 million years to the Silurian period.