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Why Is The Black Country Museum Called The Black Country Museum?

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    It's because museum occupies a 26 acre (105,000 m²) urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation (Wikepedia.com).

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    Bibby 

    answered 1 year ago

      Much of the area immediately surrounding Birmingham is called the Black Country (after the black smoke that billowed over the area during the iron-working era). That period is best preserved at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, a town about  (10 miles) northwest of Birmingham.
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      Israela 

      answered 1 year ago

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