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We've compiled the best of the best in Lyme Regis - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Located in a former church, this compact private museum run by a paleontologist has an excellent collection of local fossils with more than 16,000 specimens dating back 200 million years. It also provides information on regional geology, how fossils develop, and guided fossil-hunting walks. There are more fossils for sale in the shop on the ground floor, along with minerals.
This small but child-friendly aquarium has the usual up-close look at maritime creatures, from spider crabs to fish found in nearby Lyme Bay. Children love hand-feeding the gray mullets and getting up close to starfish, giant lobsters, and crabs.
A gabled and turreted Edwardian building on the site of local fossilist Mary Anning's former home, this lively museum is devoted to the town's maritime and domestic history, geology, local artists, writers (John Fowles was an honorary curator for a decade), and, of course, Anning herself and her fossils. The museum also leads fossil-hunting and local history walks throughout the year. Anning, who among other discoveries found the first complete plesiosaur skeleton in 1823, was a central character in the 2020 film Ammonite, shot largely in the town.
