The Etches Collection desperately needs your help

The Etches collection opened as a state-of-the-art museum in 2016. The collection is the life’s work of one man and is unique not only in terms of the breadth of fossils collected from this particular part of the Late Jurassic but also because of the detailed and meticulous way in which the fossils are prepared so that more can be learned from them.

Did you know that with the right tools you can analyse the contents of a stomach even from a fossil? The museum exists to educate young and old about these animals that lived 150 million years ago in a warm Jurassic sea where the museum now stands. Unfortunately, the forced closure of the museum has placed its very existence at risk. Watch the full story by clicking on the You Tube video link below and please help if you are able to do so. We look forward to welcoming you to this beautiful part of Dorset again soon.

The Etches Collection Museum is located in Kimmeridge, Dorset on the World Heritage Coast and contains a nationally accredited and designated collection of over 2500 fossils from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation. The collection provides a major resource for education and research as well as being a major tourist attraction.