The Etches Collection Building
The museum building was opened in 2016 at a cost of £5 million to house a collection of over 2,000 fossil specimens so that they would remain accessible beyond the lifetime of Steve Etches.[ 8] [ 9]
Collection
Etches had been collecting for over 30 years prior to the museum opening,[ 7] [ 10] ammonite eggs and fossils from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation including Thalassodraco etchesi [ 11] [ 12]
References
↑ "The Etches Collection, Museum of Jurassic Marine Life" . Kennedy O'Callagahan Architects. Retrieved 22 August 2017 .↑ Draper, Brian; Green, Howard (30 January 2020). Soulful Nature: A spiritual field guide ISBN 978-1-78622-147-6 ↑ Williams, Matt (February 2017). "The Etches Collection, Kimmeridge, Dorset". Museums Journal 117 (2). UK: Museums Association : 52– 55. ↑ Fox, Alex (16 December 2020). "Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovers New 'Sea Dragon' Species on British Beach" . Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 17 March 2021 . ↑ "New species of ichthyosaur found on Dorset's Jurassic Coast" . BBC News . 10 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021 .↑ Larwood, Jonathan (1 June 2019). "The Jurassic Coast: Geoscience and education – An overview" Proceedings of the Geologists' Association . 130 (3): 265– 273. doi :10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.05.005 . ISSN 0016-7878 . S2CID 197571174 . 1 2 Sherwood, Harriet (4 November 2016). "Fossil fever: exploring Dorset's Jurassic Coast with Steve Etches" . the Guardian . Retrieved 17 March 2021 . ↑ "From his garage to a multi-million pound museum: Plumber's incredible Jurassic treasure is unveiled" . Dorset Echo . Retrieved 17 March 2021 .↑ "New museum at Kimmeridge for Etches Collection of fossils" . BBC News BBC . 21 October 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017 .↑ Shaw, Alice (12 August 2016). "Amateur fossil hunter who spent 30 years amassing 2,000 specimens wins grant to build £5m Jurassic Coast museum" . Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 22 August 2017 . ↑ Jacobs, Megan L.; Martill, David M. (9 December 2020). "A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic (Early Tithonian) Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, UK, with implications for Late Jurassic ichthyosaur diversity" . PLOS ONE . 15 (12) e0241700. Bibcode :2020PLoSO..1541700J . doi :10.1371/journal.pone.0241700 ISSN 1932-6203 . PMC 7725355 PMID 33296370 . ↑ Etches, Steve ; Clarke, Jane; Callomon, John (October 2008). "Ammonite eggs and ammonitellae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset, England". Lethaia 42 (2): 204– 217. doi :10.1111/j.1502-3931.8.00133.x .
