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 Take a tour of Lyme Regis Museum, taking you step by step through the museum.
Entering the Museum
The museum is entered through the shop where there is a warm welcome for everyone. Then walk through the glass gallery overlooking the sea and the Cobb into the museum itself. |
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 Lyme has connections with an unusually rich array of distinguished personalities. Some were born here, some came for a visit, some came to stay.
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 Mary Anning (1799–1847). Mary Anning was a self-educated, working class woman from Lyme Regis and the greatest fossil hunter ever known.
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Fossils and Rocks of Lyme Regis |
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 The museum’s geology gallery contains a wealth of fossils and tells the story of the early pioneering palaeontologists who worked at Lyme, including Mary Anning, Henry de la Beche and William Buckland. You can also find out about the great landslip of 1839.
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 The rocks represent layers from the oldest part of the Jurassic period and were laid down at the bottom of a deep sea from 200 to 195 million years ago.
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 Lyme has long been a magnet for artists and writers. Many came here for holidays and were inspired by the character of the town and its environment. Others came here for health reasons. Some came as children and returned in adulthood.
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 Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of Lyme's most famous and best-loved visitors. Her great novel, Persuasion, published in 1818, is in part set in Lyme, making the town a centre of literary pilgrimage ever since.
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