Now everyone can take a virtual Walk Through Time, from a number of museums and Visitor Centres along the Jurassic Coast. This eagerly awaited interactive experience has now been installed at the following venues (east to west): Wareham Museum, Durlston Country Park Visitor Centre, Weymouth Museum, Portland Bill Visitor Centre, Bridport Museum, Charmouth Heritage Coast…
For a second year running, the Jurassic Coast website has continued to enjoy a high number of virtual visitors, with an average well in excess of 1000 unique visits every day.
The Jurassic Coast annual seminar was held on the 12th December at The Bull Hotel in Bridport. An audience of about 100 braved the cold damp weather to come along and be entertained by poetry and interactive voting, and to hear the news and views of local businesses and young people who live along the…
The work to develop the Jurassic Coast story within nine museums along the coast is developing apace. David Tucker and Richard Edmonds have visited all but one of the museums to agree new displays and content and some of the new cabinets and stands are now already in place. The project is called Collecting Cultures.…
Following an exhausting weekend running around events and installations at Weymouth which marked the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, sundown on the 28th September 2008 saw me excitedly awaiting the start of the first performance that I have had some involvement in developing in the Jurassic Coast Arts Programme since coming into post as the…
Living in Swanage I am a regular visitor to Chapman’s Pool, as one of the lovelier if less accessible spots on Purbeck’s stretch of the Jurassic Coast. Following negative coverage in the local press accompanied by a photograph of the rubbish which had accumulated in the bay over the last few months, a member of…
As more local hotels and attractions sign up to the Jurassic Coast Quality Business Scheme visitors are encouraged to look for the marque that tells them which businesses are embracing the values associated with the Jurassic Coast. The Jurassic Coast Quality Business Scheme is gathering pace with more new accreditations than in any previous period.…
A new DVD resource package launched by Devon Education Services in partnership with the Jurassic Coast Team will bring a bit of reality to geography lessons in secondary schools across the country. Using film footage on the Jurassic Coast and interviews from a range of experts, the film explores the sensitive issues surrounding the protection…
The Jurassic Coast has been attracting a huge amount of interest from the wider world. At the end of September alone, we have had experts from Northern Ireland, Spain (the Basque Country) and Vietnam visiting our coast, meeting people involved in sustainable development and talking to the team. Those from Northern Ireland were treated to…