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West Dorset
Beaminster Museum
We are delighted to welcome visitors to see our collection of Jurassic fossils from Horn Park Quarry National Nature Reserve near Beaminster. Please see the…
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West Bay
West Bay Discovery Centre
West Bay Discovery Centre tells the story of West Bay past and present featuring information, static and interactive displays, oral history and walking trails. There…
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Bridport
Bridport Museum
The small Jurassic Coast gallery in Bridport Museum boasts some wonderful specimens of local fossils including ammonites, starfish and even a plesiosaur. All of these…
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Charmouth
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
Open every day from 1st April to 31st October, 10.30am-4.30pm. For November-March opening times, please visit our website. Visit the Centre to see our amazing…
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Dorchester
Dorset Museum
After one of the most successful exhibitions ever hosted at Dorchester, Dippy on Tour, the Museum is now closed for major refurbishment until the summer…
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Purbeck
Durlston Country Park & National Nature Reserve
Durlston Country Park offers imposing views of Jurassic limestone sea cliffs which sweep round into two bays where rocks record the entire Cretaceous period. Located…
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East Devon
Fairlynch Museum
At the Fairlynch Museum (one of only a few thatched museums in the UK), you can find out about the ancient red cliffs of Budleigh…
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Beer
The Fine Foundation Heritage Centre, Beer
Come to the Fine Foundation Heritage Centre Beer to discover the story of the local geology, from the pebbles on the beach to the famous…
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Weymouth
The Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre
Now Open Daily from 10am - 4pm At The Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre, you can learn more about the formation of this huge barrier beach…
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Honiton
Honiton Museum
Fossils from the inland area near Honiton are much younger than those just a bit further south on the Jurassic Coast. At Honiton Museum come…
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Kimmeridge
The Etches Collection
The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life opened in the village of Kimmeridge in October 2016. The museum houses the remarkable collection of one…
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Purbeck
Lulworth Cove Visitor Centre
The displays, animations and films in the Lulworth Cove Visitor Centre tell the story of Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, two of the most…
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Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis Museum
There really is something to delight and inspire everyone at Lyme Regis Museum. Enjoying a stunning seafront location on the world-famous Jurassic Coast with fantastic…
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Portland
Portland Museum
Find out about the history of quarrying on Portland and the world renowned building stone which has been used in many iconic buildings around…
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Kimmeridge
The Fine Foundation Wild Seas Centre
Now open every Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm until 1st November 2020.
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Wild Seas Centre sits on the shoreline…
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Seaton
Seaton Jurassic
Seaton Jurassic will reopen on Friday 28th May 2021 at 10am.
The exhibition will operate timed bookings and be open from 10am until…Read More
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Sidmouth
Sidmouth Museum
Discover the lost world of the Triassic period by travelling back 235 million years when life-sustaining rivers flowed through the deserts and allowed the earliest…
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Swanage
Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre
In the Swanage Museum and Heritage Centre, formerly the old seafront market building, you can see dinosaur footprints and discover more about the local stone industry,…
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Purbeck
Wareham Town Museum
Wareham Town Museum's geology display shows how the Wytch Farm oil field (the largest onshore oilfield in western Europe) is closely linked to the Jurassic…
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