Dinosaurland Fossil Museum ( Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.David Else and Fionn Davenport, Great Britain, Lonely Planet, 2009. Page 309. .Oliver Berry and Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England, Lonely Planet, 2008. Page 161. .Thomas A. Hose, Geotourism: Appreciating the deep time of landscapes. In Marina Novelli (editor), Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. . The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.
Museum The museum, opened in 1989, is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP.Fine example of a crinoid!, Midweek Herald, 14 November 2007. It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks.Dinosaurland — Lyme Regis , VisitBritain, UK. There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals.Dinosaurland Fossil Shop , Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK.
The fossil collection is housed on the ground floor.Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset , Visitor World , UK. As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs from China. There are also modern shells and skeletons on display. The museum has a small collection of dinosaur fossils on show (such as a large dinosaur coprolite, a Megalosaurus skeleton and a Chinese dinosaur, of unknown genus).
Congregational Church The museum is located on Coombe Street in a 250-year-old Grade I listed building that used to be a congregational church. The church was built between 1750 and 1755 by John Whitty. It was where Mary Anning (1799–1847), an early fossil hunter, was baptised and later attended for worship.Lyme Regis , Panoromic Earth .
The two storey building has a hipped roof and rusticated quoins. The round-headed doorway has Doric pilasters on either side. There is a 19th-century addition to the left hand end of the building.
See also Lyme Regis Museum Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester, Dorset Jurassica, Isle of Portland Dinosaur Isle, Sandown, Isle of Wight Portland Museum
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External links
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum website