Venue: Tomorrow’s Museum for Dorset, Unit 14, Pope Street, Brewery Square, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1GW
Corn Exchange, High Street East, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1HF
Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UY
The amazing inflatable replica of the Dorset County Museum will be heading to Portland on Sunday 28th April at the Osprey Leisure Centre as part of its tour of the county.
The museum relocated to Brewery Square in late 2018 as it began a series of refurbishment works at its existing site on High West Street. The lease was agreed until early 2019, but due to the success of the location it has been extended until 2 June 2019.
Dorset County Museum’s iconic building in High West Street may be closed while its exciting redevelopment programme takes place, but the Victorian structure will soon be popping up all over the county in magnificent inflatable form.
For all those, young and old, who love science and like learning new things, there is an exciting new event coming to the Corn Exchange in Dorchester on Sunday 17th March from 1pm-5pm.
Last summer preliminary work began at the Museum in the demolition and site clearance at the rear of the building which included a full archaeological excavation of the site.
Head of Development and Communications at the Museum Gabriella Crouch and two Dippy Volunteers – David James and Linda Roberts both longstanding volunteers at the Museum – were in attendance as the team who brought Dippy to Dorset were crowned Leisure & Tourism champions at the South West Business & Community Awards on Thursday evening in Swindon.
Moving an historic, 2000-year-old, fragile mosaic is not for the faint hearted but when it stands in the way of the Dorset County Museum’s £14.9 million redevelopment programme – needs must!