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A great boost for Dinosaur Isle and Sandown. The British Dinosaur Trust plan to turn Dinosaur Isle into The British Dinosaur Centre - creating a major national visitor attraction.
Dinosaur Isle: Isle of Wight
Dinosaur Isle in Sandown, Isle of Wight is an Accredited Museum holding an impressive collection of dinosaur items.
Built in 2001 at a cost of £2.7m, funded in part by a Millennium Lottery grant, the distinctive building is popular with school parties and visitors alike.
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On Museum Day, the council say the process for finding an investment partner will include a ‘negotiation’ approach to "help maximise all opportunities" and will include more feasibility work on using council land next to the museum.
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The Chair of The Friends of Dinosaur Isle Museum shares a detailed update with OnTheWight about the Isle of Wight council’s ‘Soft Market Test' event that took place last week.
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Following OnTheWight breaking the news about the uncertain future of Dinosaur Isle, we approached the Friends of Dinosaur Isle asking them to outline their vision for what the popular attraction could be in the future, while staying in the hands of Islanders.
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The council are actively pitching around for 'partners' to take it over. What's unclear is why this is happening when the Friends of Dinosaur Isle have been trying to take it off the council's hands for eight years.
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Thanks to a grant from the Royal Society’s Local Heroes scheme, Dinosaur Isle is to celebrate Britain's ‘greatest dinosaur hunter’, the Reverend William Fox.
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Dinosaur Isle’s world class fossil collection has recently been given special recognition with sponsorship and invitation to display at Europe’s biggest fossil and mineral show, the Munich Show.
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Two days of free entry to Dinosaur Isle, loads of great activities, an opportunity to meet the experts, walks, lectures and even a supper!
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You can now see the rare fossil which was found by Emily Tabassi-Gill and her family, from East Sussex, on a fossil walk led by Dinosaur Isle staff in February.
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This sounds like something interesting to take the kids to over the Christmas holidays.
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A family from Ventnor got a surprise at Dinosaur Isle on Sunday 8 February when they became the museum's millionth visitors.
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A milestone is nearing at Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown, with the one millionth visitor expected through its doors on Sunday 8 February.
