Lyme Regis Museum is celebrating the life and work of one the town’s most famous daughters, Mary Anning, with the unveiling of a rarely seen portrait of the renowned paleontologist, an exhibition featuring one of her rare ichthyosaurs and a stunning newly discovered genus and species of extinct marine ‘crocodile’ found by two local fossil […]
In pictures – the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022
Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning finally has a statue in her home town of Lyme Regis thanks to schoolgirl Evie Swire. It was unveiled by Professor Alice Roberts on 21 May 2022, overlooking Black Ven cliffs and Golden Cap, on the 223rd anniversary of Anning’s birth. It was a historic day both for Lyme Regis […]
In pictures – Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
A star object from the Victoria and Albert Museums collection is due to go on display in a new exhibition being held at Dorset Museum.
Two striking new pieces of art celebrating Bournemouth’s famous coastline will greet seafront visitors this summer. BCP Council have commissioned two local artists to revamp and improve the visitor experience around Bournemouth Pier Approach Flyover and Boscombe Land Train Garage on Undercliff Drive. Starting this week, 16 pillars at Bournemouth’s Pier Approach Flyover, an area […]
The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum has been awarded a grant of £518,000 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England. This money will be used on a project to restore the original 1901 conservatory, replace the air-handling units and improve drainage. This grant forms part of almost £50 […]
After great success with a silver gilt award at the renowned Chelsea Flower Show in 2019, Kingston Maurward has once again joined up with local plant growers and suppliers to celebrate Dorset horticulture with a garden in this year’s Sanctuary Gardens category. Using a visit to Kingston Maurward’s sister garden La Mortola, (The Hanbury Botanical Gardens) […]
‘Best in Show’ garden designer and plantsman, Chris Beardshaw returns to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2022 as part of the new Project Giving Back initiative, with a Show Garden for one of the nation’s most well-respected charities, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, (RNLI). Chris Beardshaw, who’s been a lifelong supporter of the charity, […]
