Bridport Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Jurassic Coast!
On 13 December 2011 The Jurassic Coast is celebrating its 10th birthday. This marks the occasion in December 2001 when the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Site was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). Known to all as the Jurassic Coast, our World Heritage Site remains the only natural World Heritage Site in England.
The Jurassic Coast is the only place in the world where the 185 million year history of the Mesozoic period – the age of the dinosaurs – can be studied in an unbroken sequence of rocks stretching over a distance of 95 miles from Orncombe Point in East Devon to Ballard Down in Purbeck.
To help celebrate this birthday Bridport Museum is coming out of its winter ‘hibernation’ and is open all day on 13 December. Come and join us to celebrate and admire our beautiful fossil gallery, complete with our Plesiosaur!
The museums of the Jurassic Coast have played an important role in spreading the message of the Jurassic Coast – many have important Jurassic Coast fossils. These range from a jawbone of a very rare 230 million year old predator in Sidmouth, to a fantastic fossilised fish in Lyme Regis, an incredibly rare fossilised turtle in Portland Museum and fossils taken from deep strata in Wareham. At Swanage Museum visitors can see the most easterly point of the Jurassic Coast.
Bridport Museum is proud to be able to join these celebrations, so pop in and join us on this special day!
For more information please contact Bridport Museum Trust
