Best places: Museums in Chester-le-Street, United Kingdom

A recreation of Georgian, Victorian & Edwardian life with costumed staff, plus trams & buses.

One-time home and surgery of TV/writer vet, including a re-created World War II air-raid shelter.

👍👍 Absolutely love this place. The warm, enthusiastic welcome you get is incredible. You really get the vibe that the people there love what they do. The site itself is incredible. A must see for any history geek. The indoor museum bit is incredible too...lots to see, all in different varieties of disp...

One-time seat of the Kings of Northumbria, with audio-tours of the state rooms and live excavations.

Dogs allowed

An archaeological site and museum around an excavated Roman fort and village, with bath-house ruins.

Quayside attraction capturing Nelson's time period, with museum, costumed guides and 1817 warship.

Open-air museum with collections in historic buildings on rural local life from Iron Age to 1950s.

👍👍 You can’t come to Northumberland and not visit this museum. The people running it are really nice. We arrived just after the last entry time at 4.30 and whilst the doors were locked, the ladies let us in. The museum is excellent in recreating the time in which Grace Darling lived and really tells...

Georgian mansion for exhibits on local life, a recreated Victorian street, with riverside grounds.

Romantic ruined fortress from 1300s with Norman heritage, on a green clifftop with river views.

Refurbished Victorian museum with natural history and Hadrian's wall displays and planetarium.

Part of the 2-venue biggest railway museum in the world, with locomotives and interactive displays.

Restored building dating from 1788, with plays, music and more, plus behind the scenes tours.

Focusing on Asian art and culture, covering ancient Egypt to India, China and Japan.

A grand building housing an eclectic collection of antiques, curios, art and relics on 3 floors.

Tours of an old mine with displays on local mining history, with a play park and wildlife hides.

Museum in a former Victorian workhouse with vagrant cells, dining halls & a restored kitchen garden.

Depicts Roman army life in a fort on Hadrian's Wall through artefacts, reconstructions & 3D film.

A former 19th-century coal mine now a museum and heritage centre for art and local historic relics.