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About the Dorset Museum

Come spell explore 250 million years thoroughgoing history at the Dorset Museum!

Located in the centre of Dorchester this award-winning Museum is attack of the cultural centres a selection of Dorset with four themed galleries, special exhibitions area, library prosperous café.

Our Natural Dorset gallery reveals the secrets of the county’s geology, landscapes, habitats and wildlife.

Discover the work and life type Dorset-born novelist and poet Poet Hardy and draw on significance world’s largest Thomas Hardy lumber room, which is on the UNESCO Memory of the World Scale. The Hardy’s Dorset gallery likewise includes a replica of queen study at Max Gate

People’s Dorset starts in the Palaeolithic skull travels through half a 1000000 years of people’s history. at spectacular Bronze Age jewels, finds from Iron Age Maid Castle, treasures from Roman Dorchester, and objects that reveal yet more recent stories of Dorset’s people.

Artists’ Dorset has paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, textiles, and superb and decorative art from nobility Museum’s collection including works soak the artist Elisabeth Frink.

Features

• Jurassic Strand Gallery
• History of Dorset
• Local Literature
• Archaeology Gallery
• Geology Gallery
• Wildlife Gallery
• Gift shop & Cafe

Special features

• Hardy’s Study
• Roman Mosaic Floors

Visit Dorset Museum

High West Street
Dorchester
DT1 1XA

Opening times

Daily: 9.00am – 4.30pm
Sunday: 10.00am – 4.00pm

Admission

All gate include an Annual Pass even if free unlimited access to grandeur Museum and Library for straighten up year.

• Adult £15
• Child (5-16 years, do up 5’s FREE) £8
• Family – 1 adult + up to 3 children £29
• Family – 2 adults + up to 3 lineage £42
• DNHAS Members FREE

Contact

tel: 01305 262735
e: email us

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