The County Durham site ranked top of the charts in a study of UK and global filming locations that are the most popular for tourists to visit.
The online entertainment site 888 Casino analysed more than 100 TV show filming locations and Beamish was outstanding.
Here’s a selection of our own Echo archive views of the tourist hotspot from 2003 to 2016 - as well as a flashback to the video of the new cinema opening at Beamish.
5. Twins on camera
Acting twins Graham and Julie Nicholson, from Sunderland, were starring in a regional film to be filmed at Beamish in 2013. | se
6. Stacie stars in 2013
TV chef Stacie Stewart officially opened the Joseph Herron Baker & Confectioner shop at Beamish Museum in 2013. | se
7. A part in history
Our 2015 Sunderland Echo story about Beamish featuring in the last ever episode of Dowton Abbey. | nw
8. Isla in the limelight
Nine-year-old Isla McMonigle from Washington played Isabella, the daughter of Mary Ann Cotton, in Dark Angel, in 2016. Some of the scenes were set in Beamish. | se