Exhibitions

Plesiosaurus 200: Celebrating 200 years since Mary Anning’s groundbreaking discovery
A new temporary exhibition for 2024

Opening Date | 25th May 2024
Free with Museum Admission

Our new temporary exhibition, exploring the history of Mary Anning’s discovery of the first complete plesiosaur skeleton, opened in the Geology Gallery on 25th May.

The exhibition is brought right up-to-date with amazing local modern finds including the second ever specimen of a very rare new plesiosaur that was the ancestor of Attenborough’s ‘Sea Rex’. 

Coastal Views – Alison Bowskill

Dorset-based Artist Alison Bowskill’s prints are an emotive response to locations and environments, they capture the drama, life and mood of these places. In this exhibition she explores a variety of printmaking processes and techniques including etching, lithography and lino.

Coastal Views will be running in our Rotunda Gallery from 11 March. For visiting information please see our Plan your Visit page. This exhibition is FREE with admission.