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 | |
|---|---|
| Location | Lyme Regis, Dorset |
| Built | 1750-1755 |
| Architect | John Whitty |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name: Congregational Church | |
| Designated | 31 January 1974[1] |
| Reference No. | 404523 |
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
- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ David Else and Fionn Davenport, Great Britain, Lonely Planet, 2009. Page 309. ISBN 978-1-74104-491-1.
- ↑ Oliver Berry and Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England, Lonely Planet, 2008. Page 161. ISBN 978-1-74104-873-5.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Fine example of a crinoid![dead link], Midweek Herald, 14 November 2007.
- ↑ "Briefing: Dinosaur upgrade in Lyme". Geology Today. 14 (5): 167–168. 1998. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2451.1998.014005162.x. S2CID 247710088.
- ↑ Dinosaurland — Lyme Regis Archived 2012-07-13 at Archive.today, VisitBritain, UK.
- ↑ Dinosaurland Fossil Shop Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK.
- ↑ Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset Archived 2010-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Visitor World Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, UK.
- ↑ Lyme Regis Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, Panoromic Earth Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.