
Projects
- Women chainmakers inspect the restoration work of the Steam Hammer and Anchor Forge.
- Donors celebrate the opening of the Brook Entrance - an activity space for children and adults.
Our Museum is a unique, 26-acre real-life setting for telling stories. Open-air museums like ours don't create galleries and exhibition halls with cases and labels: they build landscapes, workshops, alleyways, backyards and streets where things happen.
As a registered educational charity and an independent, not-for-profit organisation, we must raise 100% of our running costs through earned income, such as admissions fees. We can only continue to bring 300 years of history to life with the much-needed support from businesses, trusts and foundations, community groups and generous individuals like you.
Explore some of our current fundraising campaigns below, and find out how you can get involved.

BCLM: Forging Ahead
It's time to complete the story of the Black Country, with this exciting major site development.

Learning Space
Help us create a much-needed learning space for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Visit Us
Enjoy a proper, full day out. Rain or shine, you won’t run out of things to see when exploring our 26 acres.
What happened next?
Thanks to your support, we've been able to develop some fantastic educational and heritage projects. Take a look at our most recent campaigns below, and find out where they are now. We'd like to thank all our funders for helping to make this work possible.

Racecourse Colliery
With your support, we're transforming the Colliery and telling brand new stories...

Anchor Forge
We're steaming ahead with a full refurbishment of the 1920s forge ...

Tram 5
Thanks to your generous donations, we're getting Tram 5 back on track...

Visit Us
Enjoy a proper, full day out. Rain or shine, you won’t run out of things to see when exploring our 26 acres.
Support BCLM
If you would like to support any of our current projects, you can make a donation online or download our donation form.
For more information, contact the Development Team on 0121 557 9523 or email development@bclm.com