Lyme Regis Museum wants to hear what the people of Lyme think about its plans to extend the museum through the creation of the Mary Anning Wing. Director David Tucker… READ MORE
NEWS
New in the Museum: Novelty Postcards
As pictured above, Lyme Regis Museum has a new exhibit of Novelty Postcards on show! This features a number of novelty cards of Lyme, taken from a collection recently given… READ MORE
Sea Defences – The Cobb breakwater
Our web-site now contains an article giving an extensive history of the Cobb breakwater. Click here to read Richard Bull’s article.
EVENTS: Coming up in March
Vile Ministers and Poor Silly Creatures Thursday 5th March in Woodmead Hall at 2.30pm. A talk by Bruce Upton. Stories from Dorset in the Civil War, some tragic, some comic,… READ MORE
Newly found Ichthyosaur named after Mary Anning
A fossil ichthyosaur that was discovered on the Dorset coast in the 1980s has been discovered to be a totally new species. What’s more, it has been named Ichthyosaurus anningae… READ MORE
Family Fun Day – February half-term 2015
Have great fun making a Pasta-saurus between 11am and 3pm on Thursday 19th February. Everything is free all day!
EVENTS: Coming up in February
Thomas Hawkins and his Sea Dragons – a mad, bad, fossil collector? Thursday 5th February in Woodmead Hall at 2.30pm. A talk by Stephen Locke. Hawkins was a highly successful… READ MORE
New Exhibition: Serendipity
From 14th January, there will be a new exhibition in the Rotunda Gallery at Lyme Regis Museum. It is a “lucky-dip“ of pictures and objects from our reserve collections, chosen… READ MORE
A shell-crushing Jurassic fish
One of the many impressive fossils on display in Lyme Regis Museum is that of a Jurassic fish known as Dapedium. This was first discovered by Lyme’s pioneering fossil collector… READ MORE
EVENTS: Coming up in January
There is still time to catch the Sydney Jessett exhibition in the Rotunda Gallery, which has been extended into the first few days of January. But the last day will… READ MORE