The Museum is essentially an urban heritage park to which buildings from throughout the Black Country have been relocated and are brought to life to tell the story of the area's rich heritage.

The site more than 10 hectares over 40 buildings have been built ranging in scale from the massive entrance building The Museum site is not all buildings with areas of apparently derelict land, the result of coal mining, linking the Museum village to the mining area You can go underground into the coal mine, take a trip on a canal narrowboat into the famous Dudley Canal Caverns.