Black Country Living Museum Wolverhampton (collectively known as the Black Country); mainly in a specially built village. Most buildings were relocated from their original sites to form a base from where demonstrators portray life spanning 300 years of history, with a focus on 1850-1950. The museum is constantly improving as new exhibits, especially buildings, are being added. The museum is close to the site where Dud Dudley first mastered the technique of smelting iron with coal instead of wood charcoal and making iron enough for industrial use. Having a claim to be "the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution", the Black Country is famous for
The Black Museum in scope to "The Black Museum". It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum. It used many of the same picked cases as "The Black Museum", and it nearly mirrored its broadcast run. The two shows were different in the respect that while "Whitehall 1212" told the story of a case entirely from the point of view of the police starting from the crime scene, "The Black Museum" was more heavily dramatized and played out scenes of the actual murders and included scenes from the criminal's point of view.> The following episodes were broadcast: Based