Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
1003 Reviews
- Friday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Saturday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Sunday10 AM–4 PM
- Monday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Tuesday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Wednesday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Thursday9 AM–4:30 PM
About the Business
Dorset Museum - Celebrating 250 million years of history | Welcome to the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery a world-class contemporary museum celebrating 250 million years of history.
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+441305262735
High W St, Dorchester DT1 1XA
Hours
- Friday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Saturday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Sunday10 AM–4 PM
- Monday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Tuesday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Wednesday9 AM–4:30 PM
- Thursday9 AM–4:30 PM
Features
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Wheelchair-accessible lift
- Wheelchair-accessible toilet
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Transgender safe space
- Wheelchair-accessible seating
- Wi-Fi
- Toilets
- Family friendly
- Good for kids
- Assistive hearing loop
- Gender-neutral toilets
- Restaurant
- Live performances
- Kid-friendly activities
- Discounts for kids
- Family discount
- Nursing room
- Assisted listening devices
- Wheelchair rental
Recommended Reviews
Peter Hadfield
12.03.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Very well organised museum and lots of interest from fossils to Frink (Elizabeth!) The cafe was also very welcome. Friendly, helpful staff. The ticket is valid for a year.
Tracey K
08.03.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Great update to this museum! Lots to see and do for all ages. Lovely cafe too. The big pin art toy on the second floor was one of the highlights.
Phil P
04.03.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
I visited Dorset Museum principally to see the new Frink exhibition, although there is a lot to see in the rest of the museum as well from prehistoric times to modern day. Exhibits are presented in a fun and educational way. This is my second visit and I still like the museums redesign, particularly the use of graphics making information assessable and rememberable.There are interactive exhibits which are fun as well as educational so good for the young and young at heart. It has a comfortable cafe with tasty food and a good-sized shop. Everyone I met who worked there were friendly and knowledgeable.Something to note is your ticket price gives you access for a year, not just the day you visit (worth checking this is still the case). There’s certainly enough to see, if like me, you like to take your time and not get overload.
Jim Pettitt
23.02.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
I hadn't been here before today recent £12million (?) Improvements but wow, it certainly is a very impressive museum now. There is everything from prehistoric to modern, with fascinating and often interactive exhibits. There are still more exhibits being prepared for display, so will vary each time you visit. We bought annual passes and will be back soon!
Jill Collins
06.02.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Evan though children are free adult cost is high but you can come back as often as you like in a year..lots of interaction and a great place on a wet day,very interesting lots of local history amazing mosaics.
Victoria Willoughby
24.01.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
At £14.50 per adult and being The Museum of Dorset I was expecting so much more. Took us about an hour to go round the whole place. It’s a lovely building with a lot of empty space in it. What exhibits there are are good with some interactive ones. Shop was pretty sub standard compared to other county museums. The museum has so much potential but sadly not worth your time or money at the moment
Gareth Bahlke
12.01.2024
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
This is an excellent Museum, with things of interest for children and adults. Excellent place for cold days and the days that are too hot. There is an awful lot to see and the guide book rely only mentions the rooms in the museum but nothing about there continence. Not much in the shop at the end so gifts are for kids only. The Coffey shop needs a mention as it is so good. There sandwiches are not to be missed.
tim pethick
31.12.2023
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Recommend place to visit. Some wonderful displays, it's recently clearly had a large amount of investment placed into the whole infrastructure and displays and is vast with a smaller frontage on the high street which is TARDIS like when you get inside.Great art displays for local artists in Dorset, wonderful Thomas hardy area with something for everyone.The history of Dorset is fascinating starting with the flint axes , bronze age.Roman exhibition is brilliant, lots of fascinating local history as Dorchester was a Roman outpost from the first century. Roman mosaics looked beautiful and were prolific.There was the remains of vikings who landed locally and were massacred by decapitation, grisly.Lots of other local history information too.Dinosaurs excavated in dorset were exhibited very clearly and there was the huge skull of a long extinct pleasiosaurus , it was truly dramatic and they had plenty of interesting information relating to this fossilized sea creature.The cost of entry was very reasonable for the interest inside.The cafe was expensive and I chose to go to a local bakery for lunch instead.
Iain Robinson
21.12.2023
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
What a phenomenal museum. There is so much to see. The geological section is wonderful, with some excellent hands-on exhibits. The Victorian Hall with its Roman mosaics is stunning. There is a very full and detailed Hardy exhibition and some first rate archeological artefacts on the first floor. The Frink collection on the upper floor is stunning. Worth every penny!
Paul Swann
17.12.2023
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
We went specifically for the Wildlife Photography of the Year exhibition. Very warmly welcomed with explanation of the museum content. We are lucky to have a free city museum we've we live, so a bit taken back by the entry price of £14. It allows for repeat visits but not really helpful for the visitor passing through.Exhibition was great and there are further exhibits on Hardy and the Jurassic fossils.
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High W St, Dorchester DT1 1XA
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery