Featuring within CTA’s 2024 Conference, County Durham has announced various updates for groups in 2024.

At Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, the Remaking Beamish development continues. The opening of a Georgian tavern and pottery is planned, alongside a 1950s cinema, toy shop and electrical store.

Meanwhile, at Auckland Castle, which featured on the Conference’s pre-event fam, the regeneration continues as three new gardens open from June 2024. Groups can connect with nature in the Wilderness Garden, pause and reflect in the Faith Garden, and meet Auckland Castle’s gardeners in the historic Walled Garden, which will feature a striking new glasshouse.

The Bowes Museum will be opening The Curiosity Project in April, where visitors can explore redesigned gallery spaces and get up close to even more of the museum’s outstanding collection.

Raby Castle, which featured as part of the CTA Conference’s fam trips, has an exciting new attraction, The Rising, that will restore the estate’s magnificent historic spaces in spring 2024 with a reimagined walled garden and new café restaurant.

Also opening in spring will be the New Hall at Locomotion, making the museum home to the largest collection of historic railway vehicles under cover on one site, anywhere in the world – and the largest museum collection of rail vehicles in Europe.