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Events at Lyme Regis MuseumFind out what's coming up at the Museum.

 

 

FRIDAY 2 JULY at 2.30pm

‘Jane Austen’s Fame’
Diana Shervington recalls her famous ancestor.

SATURDAY 3 AND SUNDAY 4 JULY at 2:30pm

‘Know Your Fossils’
Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.
Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds.

SUNDAY 4 JULY depart from the museum at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold.

WEDNESDAY 7 JULY depart from Lifeboat Station at 7.00pm

‘Fishermen, Fossils and French Lieutenant’s Woman’
Walk around the Cobb with local boatman Ken Gollop.

SATURDAY 10 JULY at 2.30pm

‘From Clouted Cream to Penny a Lick’
Talk by Felicity Hebditch on Victorian food and cooking with recipes, implements and tastings.
Also a sale of Victorian-recipe homemade cakes, biscuits and preserves.

SATURDAY 10 JULY depart from the museum at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
Walk with Natalie Manifold through the Lyme Regis that Mary Anning ‘the princess of palaeontology’ would have known.

THURSDAY 15 JULY at 2.30pm

‘James McNeill Whistler in Lyme Regis’
Talk by Sandra Lello on the famous 19th-century American artist who painted ‘The Little Rose of Lyme Regis’.

SATURDAY 17 AND SUNDAY 18 JULY at 2:30pm

‘Know Your Fossils’
Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.
Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds.

SATURDAY 17 JULY depart from the museum at 1.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold.

WEDNESDAY 21 JULY at 2.30pm

‘How our Grandparents Lived’
Talk on the health and welfare of Lyme’s residents in the first half of the 20th century, with Martin Roundell-Greene.

SATURDAY 24 JULY depart from the museum at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold.

SUNDAY 25 JULY at St Michael’s Church, Lyme Regis, at 3.30pm

Piano recital and poetry reading by John and Sandra Lello
Organised by the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum.

TUESDAY 27 JULY at 2.30pm

‘George Somers and the Bermuda Connection’
Talk by Barbara Austin on Lyme’s long connection with Bermuda.

THURSDAY 29 JULY walk meets outside museum at 7.30pm

'Ghost walk of Old Lyme Regis'
Carl Salter's 1-hour fun walk of the famous ghosts of Lyme Regis.

FRIDAY 30 JULY at 2.30pm

‘Shipwreck and Rescue’
In Lifeboat Week, Thea Hawkesworth talks about famous wrecks and rescues in Lyme’s history.

SUNDAY 1 AUGUST depart from museum at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
A walk with professional guide Natalie Manifold.
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils.

SUNDAY 1 AUGUST depart from museum at 3.30pm

"Rockpooling"
Discover the magical world of sea life that lies in the wake of the tide with museum geologist Paddy Howe and marine biologist Chris Andrew.

MONDAY 2 AUGUST depart from museum at 4.00pm

"Rockpooling"
Discover the magical world of sea life that lies in the wake of the tide with museum geologist Paddy Howe and marine biologist Chris Andrew.

WEDNESDAY 4 AUGUST at 2:30pm

‘Know Your Fossils’
Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.
Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify them, and how to handle your finds.

FRIDAY 6 AUGUST drop in any time between 11am and 3pm

Family Fossil Day
Fossil experts Paddy and Chris will be in the museum to talk, answer questions and show amazing fossils. Meet them in the geology gallery.

SATURDAY 7 AUGUST depart from museum at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
A walk with professional guide Natalie Manifold.
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils.

WEDNESDAY 11 AUGUST at 2.30pm

The History of Lyme in Ten Objects – the Grandfather Clock and the Fire Engine’
A talk for families by Thea Hawkesworth on two of the most intriguing objects in the museum

SATURDAY 14 AUGUST depart from museum at 12.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
A walk with professional guide Natalie Manifold.
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils.

MONDAY 16 AUGUST depart from museum at 4.30pm

"Rockpooling"
Discover the magical world of sea life that lies in the wake of the tide with museum geologist Paddy Howe and marine biologist Chris Andrew.

TUESDAY 17 AUGUST drop in any time between 11am and 3pm

Family Fossil Day
Fossil experts Paddy and Chris will be in the museum to talk, answer questions and show amazing fossils. Meet them in the geology gallery.

TUESDAY 17 AUGUST depart from museum at 5.00pm

"Rockpooling"
Discover the magical world of sea life that lies in the wake of the tide with museum geologist Paddy Howe and marine biologist Chris Andrew.

WEDNESDAY 18 AUGUST at 2.30pm

‘By Candlelight and Rushlight’
Thea Hawkesworth looks at how people lived in medieval Lyme.

THURSDAY 19 AUGUST walk meets outside museum at 7.30pm

'Ghost walk of Old Lyme Regis'
Carl Salter's 1-hour fun walk of the famous ghosts of Lyme Regis.

SATURDAY 21 AUGUST departing at 3.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
A walk with professional guide Natalie Manifold.
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils.

WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST at 2.30pm

‘Mary Anning – Fossil Pioneer’
Talk by Daphne Baker on the greatest fossil hunter the world has every known.

SATURDAY 28 AUGUST departing at 1.30pm

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
A walk with professional guide Natalie Manifold.
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils.

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