Category: Museums

The Museum is housed on the ground floor of the smallest Town Hall in England and so it is quite small too, but well worth a visit. Starting with the Iguanadon (dinosaur) footprints, the museum exhibitions offers a glimpse into the local history of Corfe Castle and the Isle of…

If you are walking across Hartland Moor near Corfe Castle, it's worth visiting the thatched museum and workshop at Scotland Farm. It's home to an amazing collection of horse-drawn wagons, carts and traditional country crafts. A number of items are also for sale, including beautifully rustic oak or ash bird…

The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life A unique, modern museum of amazing fossils – the marine life of Jurassic Dorset. Learn about Life and Death in the Kimmeridgian Seas 157 million years ago during the age of the Dinosaurs….

The Purbeck Mining Museum is dedicated to the history and heritage of Purbeck Ball Clay mining and it’s industrial narrow gauge railways.

Swanage Railway Museum is based at Corfe Castle Station. Its main objective is to preserve and restore, for the public benefit, items of historical value in connection with railways and in particular the Swanage Branch Line.