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 Go on a virtual tour of Lyme Regis Museum, taking you step by step through the science, arts and landscape of this fascinating town on Dorset's historic Jurassic Coast.
See a "gigapan" picture of the Museum and zoom in to the smallest details. (Link to external web-site)
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The Bindon Landslip of 1839 |
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 Conybeare and Dawson's Memoir and Views of Landslips on the Coast of East Devon &c. 1840
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Read more about the Bindon Landslip
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 A unique book only available from Lyme Regis museum
“A poem in the form of Letters from Lyme to a friend at Bath written during the autumn of 1818”
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Read more about the Lymiad
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 Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was one of Lyme Regis's most famous and best-loved visitors. Her great novel, Persuasion, published in 1818, is in part set in Lyme, making the Dorset town a centre of literary pilgrimage ever since.
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Fossils and Rocks of Lyme Regis |
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 Here be dinosaurs! The geology gallery of Lyme Regis Museum contains a wealth of fossils and tells of the early pioneering palaeontologists who worked at this Dorset town on what is now the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. You can also learn about the great landslip of 1839 and link to all our fossil-related resources.
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Read more about Fossils and Rocks >
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 Thomas Coram, Philanthropist
Founder of the Foundlings Hospital
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Read about the founder of the Foundling Hospital
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 John Gould FRS, a famous son of Lyme who became a leading ornithologist and influenced Charles Darwin's great theory
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Read more about John Gould
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 Lyme Regis in Dorset 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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Read more about the Famous People of Lyme >
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 The fortunes of the small coastal town of Lyme Regis have always been closely bound up with the sea. For seven centuries trade has flourished and faded through its port, protected by the great wall of the Cobb. Fishing, smuggling, storms and shipwrecks have left their relics. For the past two hundred years the town has earned its living as a tourist resort,and is now part of the Jurassic Coast Word Heritage Site.
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Read more about The Sea and the Cobb >
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History of Lyme Regis in Museum Objects |
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In 2010 Neil Ferguson, Director of the British Museum, presented a series on BBC Radio 4 entitled The History of the World in a Hundred Objects, based on material in the British Museum’s collection. Lyme Regis Museum complemented the programmes with a series of talks:...
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Learn about these Museum objects
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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. Each autumn the Museum has a celebration of Mary Anning.Look at our events information for more details.
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Read more about Mary Anning >
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 John Fowles, writer, curator, collector. In 1978 when the writer John Fowles became curator of Lyme Regis museum, its fortunes started to change.
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 Lyme Regis has long been a magnet for artists and writers. Many came to this picturesque Dorset town 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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 In 2009 Tracy Chevalier published her novel Remarkable Creatures about Lyme Regis's famous fossil-hunter Mary Anning and her friendship with Elizabeth Philpot.
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Read more about Tracy Chevaalier
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 The rocks of Lyme Regis and the adjacent stretches of Dorset coast represent layers from the oldest part of the Jurassic period, which were laid down at the bottom of a deep sea from 200 to 195 million years ago and are now rich in fossils.
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Read more about Landslips and Landscapes >
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Photographic and Postcard Collection |
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 Lyme Regis Museum holds a large archive of thousands of photographs and postcards pertaining to this historic town on the Dorset coast.
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Read more about the Photographic and Postcard Collection >
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 On two occasions in the 17th century the Dorset coastal town of Lyme Regis sprang into national prominence.
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Read more about Civil War and Rebellion >
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 The novelist and playwright Henry Fielding (1707-54) got himself into a scrape in Lyme Regis in 1725. He tried to run away with Sarah Andrew, the ward of a merchant, Andrew Tucker. His attempt was repulsed: the next day Fielding publicly posted this notice and left town in a hurry.
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