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Museums & Galleries in Lyme Regis
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Lyme Regis — think Lyme Regis Museum, Town Mill and Dinosaurland Fossil Museum — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
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Lyme Regis Museum
Lyme Regis Museum stands on the site of Mary Anning's former home and fossil shop, telling the story of her remarkable fossil discoveries along the Jurassic Coast. Inside you'll fi...
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0.1 mi from Lyme Regis
Town Mill
Town Mill is a restored watermill in the artisan quarter of Lyme Regis, brought back to life by local volunteers after a ten-year restoration. You can explore all three floors for...
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0.1 mi from Lyme Regis
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is an independent museum in Lyme Regis run by palaeontologist Steve Davies, home to more than 30,000 specimens. You'll find a striking fossil collection...
4.9 mi from Lyme Regis
Axminster Museum
Axminster Museum, part of Axminster Heritage, brings to life "the story of Axminster" from "origins in the Bronze and Stone Ages" through to its world-famous carpet-making history,...
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6.2 mi from Lyme Regis
Axe Valley Heritage Museum
Axe Valley Heritage Museum sits in the Town Hall on Fore Street in Seaton, East Devon, and focuses on the lower Axe Valley, including Beer, Axmouth, Branscombe, Colyton and Colyfor...
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7.6 mi from Lyme Regis
Bridport Museum
Bridport Museum sits in one of Bridport's oldest buildings and brings together 180 million years of rocks and fossils, centuries of local history, and the town's ropemaking heritag...
10.3 mi from Lyme Regis
Beaminster Museum
Housed in a converted 19th-century Congregational chapel, Beaminster Museum tells the story of 170 million years of life in rural West Dorset, from ancient fossils and Stone-Age ha...
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10.3 mi from Lyme Regis
Chard Museum
Chard Museum is a small local history museum in Chard, Somerset, housed in a converted 16th-century thatched, listed building that once comprised four cottages and the old New Inn....
12.3 mi from Lyme Regis
Allhallows Museum
Allhallows Museum occupies the oldest building in Honiton, a former chapel with origins before 1327. Inside you'll find the largest collection of Honiton lace in the world, tracing...
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12.6 mi from Lyme Regis
Crewkerne Museum
Crewkerne and District Museum is a small local museum in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. It is part of a wider heritage centre which includes local archives and a meeting room. — Wikipedia
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12.9 mi from Lyme Regis
Perry's Cider Mill
Mill building in Dowlish Wake, South Somerset, England, UK
13.8 mi from Lyme Regis
Sidmouth Toy and Model Museum
Sidmouth Toy and Model Museum sits in a beautifully converted chapel on Chapel Street, right in the heart of Sidmouth's shopping area, and is a good choice if you're staying nearby...
13.8 mi from Lyme Regis
Sidmouth Museum
Sidmouth Museum sits in the heart of Sidmouth, East Devon, housed in a historic building with two floors of beautifully curated displays telling the story of Sidmouth and the Sid V...
14.5 mi from Lyme Regis
Upottery Airfield Nissen Hut Heritage Centre
This is a small heritage centre near Upottery airfield, run by the South West Airfields Heritage Trust, telling the story of local airfields used during the Second World War. You c...
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17.2 mi from Lyme Regis
Countryside Museum
Countryside Museum sits within Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in Bicton, East Devon, and traces how village life, farming, horticulture and rural crafts changed during the early 20t...
18.1 mi from Lyme Regis
Montacute TV Radio & Toy Museum
Montacute TV Radio & Toy Museum is a nostalgia-filled attraction in Montacute, Somerset, combining a museum of TV, radio and toy memorabilia with country tearooms and bed & breakfa...
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18.3 mi from Lyme Regis
Fairlynch Musuem
Fairlynch Museum is a volunteer-run museum housed in a thatched cottage in Budleigh Salterton, covering local history, archaeology, geology, costumes, lace and toys, plus a dedicat...
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18.8 mi from Lyme Regis
Whimple Heritage Centre
Whimple Heritage Centre is Devon's only cider museum, telling the story of the famous Whiteway's Cyder factory that once stood at the heart of this East Devon village. Run by enthu...
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19 mi from Lyme Regis
South Somerset Heritage Collection
Local authority museum in South West England, United Kingdom
21.4 mi from Lyme Regis
The Keep Military Museum
The Keep Military Museum sits in Dorchester, Dorset, in a striking Victorian former barracks gatehouse built in 1879 and designed to resemble a Norman Castle. Inside, exhibits cove...
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