The Mary Anning Wing

School children at the opening of the Mary Anning Wing

Heritage Grants

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03/06/2014

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Lyme & Charmouth

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Dorset

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Lyme Regis Museum

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£897900

By collecting, preserving and making accessible the many artefacts found in the area, the museum aims to bring the history of Lyme Regis to as diverse an audience as possible.

The projects aims to open up the Lyme Regis museum to as many people as possible by developing the Mary Anning Wing and providing a modern learning space, enabling the museum to extend its work with schools, universities, colleges and families. It will do this by providing the learning space, a new improved geology gallery as well as upgrading the toilets and adding a lift to the first floor. It will also improve the shop.

Equally important, the project will increase the number of volunteering opportunities open to local people of all ages.

Built on the site of Mary Anning’s house in 1902 the museum tells the story of Lyme Regis as the birth place of palaeontology. The building was designed by George Vialls who also designed the Guildhall and the Catholic Church in Lyme Regis.

The museum can be found on the Jurassic Coast and is the perfect place to discover prehistoric fossils in England’s only Natural World Heritage Site.