Beamish

Beamish is the first English museum to be financed and administered by a consortium of County Councils (Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear) and it was the first regional open-air museum in England. The museum was first proposed in 1958 and the collections were established on the Beamish site in 1970 under director Frank Atkinson (b. 1924) Atkinson, realising that the region’s traditional industries of coal-mining, shipbuilding, and iron and steel manufacture were disappearing along with the communities that served them, was anxious to preserve the customs, traditions and ways of speech of the region. He said, “It is essential that collecting be carried out quickly and on as big a scale as possible. It is now almost too late.”

In 2014 Paramount Group where contacted by Beamish Museum to undertake a number of Optical-fibre, Structured Cabling and Wi-Fi installations to multiple locations within the Town area of the museum. Since the successful delivery of the original project Paramount have undertaken a multitude of services including specialist self-supporting optical-fibre installations, dedicated Category6 link works, hardware installations and upgrades and new enclosure works.

Given the nature of the museum, its heritage and the iconic aesthetics Paramount Group boast the deliverable standards which we have been renowned for delivering to other prestigious clients such as Durham Cathedral and Hexham Abbey to ensure our relationship with the Museum is continually strengthened.