What is Lyme Regis Museum?
[[File:Lyme Regis Museum 01.JPG|thumb|Lyme Regis Museum]] [[File:Coade stone Ammonites.JPG|thumb|right|[[Coade stone]] fossil [[ammonite]]s in the pavement outside the museum.]] The '''Lyme Regis Museum''' is a local [[museum]] in the town of [[Lyme Regis]] on the [[Jurassic Coast]] in [[Dorset]], [[England]]. It is built on the site of the birthplace and home of [[Mary Anning]], the [[fossil]] hunter. Her family ran a shop here. The collections show fossils from the surrounding area dating from the [[Jurassic period]]. It includes local maritime history, memorabilia, and writers associated with the town such as [[Jane Austen]] and [[John Fowles]].<ref>Chris Broughton, [http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%2526+nature/art64980 Curator's Choice: Mary Godwin of the Philpott Museum chooses a dinosaur dung coprolite table] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012141031/http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%26+nature/art64980 |date=2012-10-12 }}, Culture24, UK, 1 March 2009.</ref> An example of [[Coade stone|Coade]] artificial stonework, in the form of [[ammonite]]s, is set into the pavement outside the museum. This touches both local history ([[Eleanor Coade]], the inventor of Coade stone) and the [[palaeontology]] for which Lyme Regis is famous. == Related pages == * [[Dinosaurland Fossil Museum]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/ Lyme Regis Museum website] {{coord|50.72481|N|2.93247|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Museums in England]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Dorset]]