Black Country Museum OG26
Event Details
Date: 24 Jul 2025 Time: 08:15
Duration (hours): Day Trip Location: Outing various
Meal Included?: NoNo
Maximum Attendees: 50
Guests Allowed?: NoNo
Attendance Fee: £43.00
Vacancies: 1
Event Organisers
First NameSurname
JennieSavage
ChrisBehrendt

BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM DUDLEY WEST MIDLANDS

THURSDAY 24 JULY 2025

REF: OG26

Pick Up Point: MK Coachway Coachway Road MK16 0AA   8.15am

Please check in with the lead on the day before boarding the coach

Arrive:              Black Country Living Museum                     10.15am dependent on traffic

Depart:             Black Country Living Museum                       4.15.pm

Arrive:              MK Coachway                                              6.15 pm dependent on traffic

Cost:                 £43

Costs includes entrance to the museum, coach hire and drivers tip.  All other costs at own expense. There are many places to eat on the site.

Closing Date: 25 June 2025

Minimum of 36 people for the outing to be viable.

Lead on the Day:                     Jennie Savage 07885 857270

Please check in with the Lead on the Day before boarding the coach

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.

The idea to create an open-air, living museum that told the story of the Black Country all started in the late 1960s, a period of rapid change for the region that saw the closure of the last working coal mine. Manufacturing dwindled and many canals lay deserted, railways began to close and the Black Country as many knew changed irrevocably.

Since then, the Museum has continued to grow and develop. In 2010, the Museum launched a £10 million development, creating a 1930s high street.

In 2019, the Museum successfully received the final go ahead for its biggest capital development project to date, Forging Ahead, bringing the Museum’s story into the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

The development has been opening in stages since 2022, with a brand new Visitor Centre and several replica or recreated buildings in the heart of the Museum, including Wolverhampton’s Elephant & Castle Pub, a Marsh & Baxter butcher, and Stanton’s Music Shop.

Set across 26 acres, explore carefully reconstructed shops, houses and industrial areas that represent the Black Country’s story. Learn how steam power, human ingenuity and an increasingly interconnected world transformed this region into a manufacturing powerhouse. 

Meet our historic characters who’ll tell you stories of what it was really like to live and work during this revolutionary period of history.