Join the Jurassic Coast’s expert Ambassadors for leisurely, family-friendly Dinosaur Footprints Walks to Keates Quarry in Purbeck. Proudly sponsored by Purbeck Ice Cream – all children’s places FREE! Adults £6, or £3 for Jurassic Coast Members. Starting at the famous Square & Compass pub in Worth Matravers at 12:00pm, join our local experts for a lunch-time…
We have invited scientists to bring a range of interactive activities. Learn about how your brain works, handle bugs, observe living microbes, identify fossils, test water samples and much more! Suitable for ages 4+ Admittance to the Family Science Fair this year will be by ticket only. Tickets are FREE and can be obtained by…
Iron pyrite, better known as fool’s gold, is a mineral with a superficial resemblance to gold, and can be found in the fossils and rocks of the Jurassic Coast, in particular around Charmouth. Some of the most beautiful ammonites are those pyrite fossils that have been polished up to shine like jewels. Fool’s gold has…
Jurassic Coast member Professor Sir Ghillean Prance is a renowned botanist and Amazon explorer. After a prodigious career at the New York Botanical Garden, he became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1988. Sir Ghillean has lived on the Jurassic Coast since retiring. We caught up with him at his home in Lyme…
No sooner than we sent out the first in our home learning activities, than Jurassic Coast fans Saba and Dex in the Netherlands took up our first challenge. Saba (5) and Dex (8) live in Papendrecht, near Rotterdam, and have taken advantage of the lockdown to create their own Jurassic Park landscape. “Dex always had…
“From caverns deep underground to sky-high mountains, the rocks and stones all around us are ancient.” Folk Tales of Rock and Stone is the new book from Devon author and Jurassic Coast ambassador Jenny Moon. A storyteller with a passion for rocks, Moon’s collection of short stories weaves together history and imagination, drawing attention to…
In line with the latest government guidelines, the Jurassic Coast is urging people to stay at home and avoid busy coastal sites. Whilst it is important to have time in nature, it is simply not worth putting yourself and those in your community at risk of infection. “The thought of not being able to fully…
Lulworth Fossil Forest will be reopen to the public from Saturday 21st March 2020. Take the opportunity to rediscover the 145 million-year-old ‘forest’ – a key part of the Jurassic Coast’s walk-through-time story. Closed after a big rockfall in 2015, the forest has 97 new steps and railings on a route that leads off the…
Head to Bridport Arts Centre for a brilliant new exhibition that celebrates life on the Jurassic Coast. Artwey, South Dorset’s visual arts community collective is currently exhibiting at the Allsop Gallery with mixed-media work featuring and inspired by the World Heritage Site. In December last year, the group launched an open call to its 80…
