Black Country Living Museum Black Country Living Museum The Black Country Living Museum (formerly The Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is located in the centre of the Black Country, 10 miles west of Birmingham. The museum occupies of former industrial land partly reclaimed from a former railway goods yard, disused lime kilns, canal arm and former coal pits. The museum opened to the public in 1978, and has since added over 50 shops, houses and other industrial buildings from around the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall and the City of
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