THE ATTIC, COURTYARD GALLERY, TOWN MILL,MILL LANE, LYME REGIS,DT7 3PU IPAD PAINTING 7th May 2018, 9am-1pm. PRICE £35 Learn to paint fossils on your iPad using the free app Paper by 53. Bring your iPad, with Paper by 53 installed, and a stylus if you have one but it’s not vital. Make sure your battery […]
Saturday 5th May 12.15pm-3.15pm. Adults £12 and children/students £6. Meet at the Museum and all bookings to be made through them.
Harbour Voices is a Lyme Regis-based group of twenty men and women celebrating songs of the sea and recounting tales of the West Dorset coast, both historic and current. Originally formed to support the Lyme Regis Gig Club, the group has developed into the performance group it is today with a wide and varied repertoire […]
Rochesters specialise in wedding & event hire covering everything from marquees and furniture through to stage & audio equipment, lighting, refrigerated trailers, generators, tableware, linen and much more. Based in West Dorset they cover events across the South West and are proud to be supplying the main marquee for the 2018 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. […]
A diverse exhibition of work, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, textile and mixed media installation, by a group of West Somerset artists, responding to their own beautiful and geologically fascinating Jurassic coast. Artists: Andy Davey, Leo Davey, Melanie Deegan, Alison Jacobs, Lucy Lean and Sue Lowe. Town Mill Arts Courtyard Gallery; The Malthouse Friday 27th April […]
Have you ever held an actual fossil or mineral? How did you know it was a fossil? What is a fossil? Do you know why minerals are important and that we can even search for them in space! At the Natural History Museum in London, we ask questions about specimens like fossils and minerals every […]
Electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy are two basic techniques in materials science. St Paul’s School will bring these microscopes to enable you all to have a go! They will also bring demonstrations of: structural colour in fossilised ammonite shells, butterflies, and beetles; and will have a range of microfossils. The public can pick out […]
Sunday 6th May 10am to 3pm: Monmouth Beach and Chimney Rock Explore the geology and wildlife of Monmouth Beach and then head inland to see Chimney Rock and the Undercliffs National Nature Reserve with reserve manager Tom Sunderland, Geoff Rowlands and Dr David Allen. Uneven ground and steep slopes and steps, you must be physically […]
Saturday 5th May 11am to 12.30pm: Geology and geomorphology of Lyme Regis seafront, with a little bit of history dropped in. Led by Jim Thomas – easy walking along seafront. £5 per head, under 5’s go free. Meet at the large anchor at Cobb Gate car park (bottom of the high street). 1.30-3.30pm: Fossil walk […]
Saving Lyme Regis from Coastal Erosion and Landsliding. Geoff Davis Lyme Regis is located in one of the most unstable geological settings in the UK and has faced considerable challenges from coastal erosion and landslides throughout its history. This talk will discuss the coastal stabilisation works which have been implemented recently, within the context of […]
Variability and ground ‘problems’ in engineering projects: why is the ground ‘unexpected’? Jackie Skipper Geotechnical Consulting Group Hazards and problems in engineering projects are frequently due to natural variations in the ground – but what geological processes cause the ground to be variable? This lecture (The 2017 Glossop Medal Lecture) will look at how geological […]
Discovering dinosaurs on Victoria’s smaller Island. Dr Martin Munt Dinosaur Isle For over 50 years in the nineteenth century the Isle of Wight was at the forefront of new dinosaur discoveries in the World. Richard Owen filled his monographs with Isle of Wight fossils, Huxley was highly influenced by the discovery of Hypsilophodon in his […]
Penguin Pompeii – Dr. Stephen Roberts British Antarctic Survey For thousands of years the health of a penguin colony nesting on a small Antarctic island has been recorded in their poop or guano which collected at the bottom of a lake. The biggest declines in the penguin colony have been due to regular volcanic activity […]
The Great Landslide – recent work on trying to understand how Goat Island and the Chasm actually formed. Richard Edmonds The Bindon Landslide of Christmas Eve 1839 lies within the Undercliffs National Nature Reserve and is one of the most famous landslides in the World, yet there is no agreement on how it may have […]
No, we don’t make it up! Bob Nicholls Palaoe-artist Current palaeo-reconstruction explained from the inside-out. Our species has attempted to reconstruct the life appearance of prehistoric animals from fossils for thousands of years. During that time, the interpretations have changed considerably as our knowledge and technologies have progressed. About 200 years ago Baron Georges Cuvier […]
Fossils in technicolour – reconstructing the colours of ancient animals. Dr Maria McNamara University College Cork Until 10 years ago, the original colours of fossil animals were thought to be lost to the ravages of geological time. Now, however, scientists can piece together the colour of ancient animals from tiny traces of biological tissues and […]
199 years of Plesiosaur discovery. Richard Forrest In 1819 Lyme Regis provided the earliest recorded finds of plesiosaurs from anywhere in the world. These incredible discoveries had a huge impact not only in scientific circles, but on the general public as well. New specimens have been found on the Dorset coast throughout the past two […]
Back to the Water: Bringing Ichthyosaurs into the 21st Century. Ben Moon, University of Bristol The talk will be about the whole of ichthyosaur research – including the 200 years up to the end of the 21st Century – but with a main focus on the last 20 (–30) years of new and exciting research, […]
JIG SAW RUS is a dinosaur jigsaw activity, based on smaller 3D wooden dinosaur jigsaw puzzles. Visitors will endeavour to construct a dinosaur from laser – precut wooden parts, and see if they can work out what lifestyle the dinosaur had from its body parts. https://www.facebook.com/Buckland-Club-244349282304454/
Here you can browse and buy incredible fossils, both real and chocolate! Fossil art, jewellery fashioned from seashore finds and Jurassic Coast inspired T-shirts!
