The Dorset Heritage Centre has returned to the Museum one of the bound sets of volumes in which Cyril Wanklyn had the Lyme Regis Borough/Court records translated from Latin where necessary and summarised. These records extend back from Victorian times to the 14th Century. The original records remain in Dorchester, where the Heritage Centre can… READ MORE
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Archive for January, 2016
New Exhibition: Ernestine’s Story
Lyme Regis Museum has a new exhibition in the ground floor gallery. It tells the story of Ernestine Collier, a local lady who lived all her life in Lyme and died there last October, aged 86. When she was sorting her mother’s possessions, Diana Hunt found that she had kept mementoes of events in her… READ MORE
New Exhibition: Almost a Distant Land
The new year is underway at Lyme Regis Museum with a new art exhibition by Liz Somerville. Situated in the Rotunda, it will continue until mid-April. It is titled “Almost a Distant Land” because Liz feels that Dorset has a dreamy, far away quality. Original hand-coloured linocuts and photographic reproductions show how the land meets… READ MORE
Railway Exhibition – Last Few Days!
Sadly our popular exhibition entitled “The Lyme Railway: Axed Fifty Years Ago” will be closing after this coming weekend. So if you haven’t seen it yet, or would like to visit it again, there are just a few days left to catch it – in the Rotunda Gallery at Lyme Regis Museum.
EVENTS: Coming up in January
January is a quiet month but even in the middle of Winter you can enjoy our current exhibition and regular fossil walks: Exhibition Currently on display in the Rotunda Gallery is “The Lyme Railway: Axed Fifty Years Ago”. This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the axing of the rail connection between Axminster and Lyme… READ MORE