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Living History Museums in Greater Manchester

Included below are Living history museums, such as Portland Basin Museum in Greater Manchester. Britain's Finest Living history, open air and working museums depict the lives of our predecessors through demonstrations, interactive displays and re-creations of villages and hamlets.

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Portland Basin Museum

Portland Basin Museum, Portland Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester

Portland Place, Ashton-under-Lyne


Portland Basin Museum is housed within the rebuilt historic Ashton Canal Warehouse. A a lively modern museum in a peaceful canal-side setting. Inside is typical Tameside street of the 1920s with a house, school, chapel, pawnbrokers and doctors... more

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