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All Week: The Tank Museum
A visit to The Tank Museum is fun any day of the year, but for half term they are going all out. There will be all the usual options as well as extra shows displaying the vehicles in action, a Top Trumps Trail, and a brand new exhibition. Not only that, but there will be a pop-up food market on the 5th which the adults can enjoy just as much.
From Home: 50 Things to Do Before You re 11 ¾
This last option is less of an event but a great option to encourage your kids to try new things this half term. The National Trust have put together a list of activities all children should have tried before they reach 11 ¾. It involves everything from rolling down a steep hill, to camping in the garden so is great for some inspiration for entertaining the little ones over the holiday. They have also produced a list of things to try in your own garden if you re unable to travel this half term.
Dorset’s museums have had a fairly tough time during lockdown and are really looking forward to reopening to the public over the next few months.
Lyme Regis Museum is built on the site of the home of Mary Anning, the world’s first great fossil hunter and celebrated its 100th birthday in March this year. The museum contains fossils found by Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot as well as one of scientific legend William Buckland’s famous plaster ‘shark poos’. They also have spectacular fossils discovered in more recent times including the head of a huge ichthyosaur. However the museum has a lot more than just fossils and, for example, their Writers’ Gallery contains Jane Austen’s cockade and material owned by the Austen family. (Much of Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion is set in Lyme).
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