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Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.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
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum website
{{Jurassic Coast Museums established in 1989 Museums in Lyme Regis Natural history museums in England Jurassic Coast Fossil museums Paleontology in the United Kingdom Dinosaur museums Lyme Regis Grade I listed churches in Dorset
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.Thomas A. HoseGeotourism: 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
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
former congregational church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...
building.
Museum
The museum, opened in 1989, is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP. It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks. There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals. The fossil collection is housed on the ground floor. As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs fromChina
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. 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-oldGrade I listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
building that used to be a congregational church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...
. 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.
The two storey building has a hipped roof and rusticated quoins. The round-headed doorway has Doric Doric may refer to:
* Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece
** Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians
* Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture
* Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode
* Doric dialect (Scotland)
* Doric ...
pilasters
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wall ...
on either side. There is a 19th-century addition to the left hand end of the building.
See also
*Lyme Regis Museum
Lyme Regis Museum (official name Lyme Regis Philpot Museum) is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law.
The museum building was commissioned in 1901 by Thomas ...
* Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England.
The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UN ...
* The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester, Dorset
* Jurassica
Jurassica was a planned visitor attraction in a disused quarry on the Isle of Portland, near Weymouth in Dorset, southern England. It was based on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, and as a subterranean geological park, would have l ...
, Isle of Portland
* Dinosaur Isle
Dinosaur Isle is a purpose-built dinosaur museum located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in southern England.
The museum was designed by Isle of Wight architect Rainey Petrie Johns in the shape of a giant pterosaur. It claims to be the first cu ...
, Sandown, Isle of Wight
* Portland Museum
References
External links
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum website
{{Jurassic Coast Museums established in 1989 Museums in Lyme Regis Natural history museums in England Jurassic Coast Fossil museums Paleontology in the United Kingdom Dinosaur museums Lyme Regis Grade I listed churches in Dorset