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Lyme Regis Museum

Lyme Regis Museum
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About Lyme Regis Museum

Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law. It is built on the site of the former home of the palaeontologist Mary Anning, which existed until 1826.

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The Lyme Regis Museum, you can go and learn some stuff about Mary Anning, and it is in the place where she was born. They bought this place and they didn't realize that that was where she was born.

from No Such Thing As The Handshake Police, 2021-05-14 at 00:37:32 ยท read transcript

Other times Lyme Regis Museum came up

  1. When he wrote his paper, when he gave his paper to the Geological Society in London in 1829, he did recognize her by name. You know, she was kind of known in her time, but she wasn't allowed to be part of the Geological Society because they didn't allow women in those days. There was the director of the Lyme Regis Museum called David Tucker. He says that if she was born in 1970, she'd beheading up the paleontology department at Imperial or Cambridge by now.

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