Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.[2][3][4] The museum is in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum
LocationLyme Regis, Dorset
Built1750-1755
ArchitectJohn Whitty
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Congregational Church
Designated31 January 1974[1]
Reference No.404523
View of Coombe Street with the Dinosaurland building in the distance.
Ichthyosaurus fossil exhibit
Exhibit of Segnosaurus nest with dinosaur eggs

The museum is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP.[5][6] It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks.[7] There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals.[4][8]

As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs from China.[9] There are also modern shells and skeletons on display. The museum has a small collection of dinosaur fossils on show (such as a large dinosaur coprolite, a Megalosaurus skeleton and a Chinese dinosaur, of unknown genus).

Congregational Church

The museum is on Coombe Street in a 250-year-old Grade I listed building that used to be a congregational church.[1] The church was built between 1750 and 1755 by John Whitty. It was where Mary Anning (1799–1847), an early fossil hunter, was baptised and later attended for worship.[10]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Congregational Church, Coombe Street, Lyme Regis, West Dorset, Dorset". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
  2. David Else and Fionn Davenport, Great Britain, Lonely Planet, 2009. Page 309. ISBN 978-1-74104-491-1.
  3. Oliver Berry and Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England, Lonely Planet, 2008. Page 161. ISBN 978-1-74104-873-5.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Thomas A. Hose, Geotourism: Appreciating the deep time of landscapes. In Marina Novelli (editor), Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7506-6133-1.
  5. Fine example of a crinoid![dead link], Midweek Herald, 14 November 2007.
  6. "Briefing: Dinosaur upgrade in Lyme". Geology Today. 14 (5): 167–168. 1998. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2451.1998.014005162.x. S2CID 247710088.
  7. Dinosaurland — Lyme Regis Archived 2012-07-13 at Archive.today, VisitBritain, UK.
  8. Dinosaurland Fossil Shop Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK.
  9. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset Archived 2010-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Visitor World Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, UK.
  10. Lyme Regis Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, Panoromic Earth Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.

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