Black Country unionism. The 20th century saw a decline in coal mining in the Black Country, with the last colliery in the region – Baggeridge Colliery near Sedgley – closing on 2 March 1968, marking the end of an era after some 300 years of mass coal mining in the region, though a small number of open cast mines remained in use for a few years afterwards. As the heavy industry that had named the region faded away, in the 1970s a museum, called the Black Country Living Museum started to take shape on derelict land near to Dudley. Today this museum
Penghu Living Museum prepared the budget for the design and construction of the museum, and the museum was finally opened on 3 April 2010. The museum building is a four-story building with one basement floor. Penghu Living Museum The Penghu Living Museum (PHLM; ) is a museum about the customs and culture of Penghu in Magong City, Penghu County, Taiwan. It had been a long time that the people of Penghu wished to have a museum dedicated to the customs and culture of Penghu, and in 1998 a museum was decided to be built as part of the major construction project of the