Living museum

They are still learning about America's first colony.

To bring all that history back to life, we now head over to another part of Jamestown, the Living History Museum at Jamestown Settlement.

Here, costumed interpreters immerse you in the life of the earliest English settlers, including the baker who likely had a couple of roosters to keep him company during those long days of baking for the entire town.

So all of the, I think what's interesting is that all of this had to be shipped over in the early days.

This is where all the goods coming into the colony from the port were taxed.

But, of course, Yorktown is historic for another important event, the American Revolution.

You can experience Yorktown's role in the war at two locations, Yorktown Battlefield and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, where there is another living history museum with enthusiastic costumed interpreters.

The Outdoor Living History Museum will help you to experience what life was like for the soldiers here.

What if you could walk into a 1900s sweet shop, ride a tram through a pit village, and get your hair set in a 1950s salon all in one day? In this episode, Samantha Shotton, Deputy CEO of Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, shares why this is history you can touch, talk to, and even taste, and how to make the most of a full day there.

[upbeat music] Hi, everybody, and welcome to this week's edition of the UK Travel Planning Podcast.

Now, this week's episode is a very special one for me, and you'll hear why in just a moment.

I'm so excited to welcome you on the podcast today because we're gonna be talking about one of my absolute favorite places to visit when I'm in the UK, um, and somewhere that's, uh, has huge, uh, childhood memories for me as well.

And, uh, and we were talking before we actually started recording, had a, a massive impact, in fact, in how I actually, um, taught history, um, as a history teacher.

So we're gonna talk all about Beamish Open Air Museum, uh, living museum in the northeast of England.

Um, so Samantha, would you like to kick off by kind of just introducing yourself and tell us a little bit about, um, what you do at Beamish?

Yeah, of course.