Living History Weekend

Eden Camp Modern History Museum is hosting its Living History Weekend on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August 2026, and it's exactly what the name suggests: the museum will be alive with re-enactors, displays, talks, and activities running across both days. If you've never been, the museum itself is built around the Second World War, and the whole point is to transport you back to wartime Britain. It does that with scenes and tableaux that recreate life on the Home Front and on the Front Line, so you're walking through the era rather than just reading about it from a plaque.

That's the backdrop the weekend builds on. The re-enactors will be scattered throughout the site, and there'll be talks and activities going on throughout the two days, so it's a bit more than a standard visit. It's the kind of thing that works as well for a proper history buff as it does for a family day out, with enough going on to keep you there for a good while.

As for the museum itself, it's won Attraction of the Year from both the English Tourist Board and the Yorkshire Tourist Board, and it stays open from 10:00 to 17:00 seven days a week from February through October. The Living History Weekend runs on those same hours, 10:00 to 17:00 on both Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August, so you've got the full day to work with on either one.