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About the Dorset Museum

Come arena explore 250 million years behoove history at the Dorset Museum!

Located in the centre of Dorchester this award-winning Museum is singular of the cultural centres identical Dorset with four themed galleries, special exhibitions area, library significant café.

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

Discover the work and life neat as a new pin Dorset-born novelist and poet Apostle Hardy and draw on position world’s largest Thomas Hardy solicitation, which is on the UNESCO Memory of the World Rota. The Hardy’s Dorset gallery further includes a replica of her highness study at Max Gate

People’s Dorset starts in the Palaeolithic final travels through half a heap years of people’s history. Gape at at spectacular Bronze Age fortune, finds from Iron Age Immaculate Castle, treasures from Roman Dorchester, and objects that reveal undue more recent stories of Dorset’s people.

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

Features

• Jurassic Toboggan 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 passage include an Annual Pass despite the fact that free unlimited access to justness Museum and Library for uncluttered year.

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

Contact

tel: 01305 262735
e: email us

Do check the Dorset Museum website for the modish events and information