Mary Anning Maquette goes on Tour!


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In May 2022, a statue of Mary Anning was unveiled in her home town, Lyme Regis after a successful crowd funding campaign - Mary Anning Rocks . This achievement gives visitors to Lyme Regis a physical reminder of a remarkable woman, a fossil hunting pioneer who lived and worked here.

Mary's artist's maquette has now gone on tour round the country and can be seen at the museums listed below.  And if you know a museum near you that would like to host Mary's maquette, please get in touch with the Mary Anning Rocks campaign here: hello@maryanningrocks.co.uk

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Find out more about the Tour using the links below...

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May 2022

Mary Anning's maquette sets off on tour from Lyme Regis!

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Top: Evie Swire. Michael Jeffries, Anya Pearson, Denise Dutton at the unveiling of the maquette in May 2021 Below: MAR trustee, Brandon Lennon, packing up the maquette and (right), handing over the maquette to Nick Pierpoint of the GA for transport to the first museum on the tour.


May - June 2022
Oxford University
Museum of Natural History, Oxford


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July - August 2022
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge


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September 2022 - January 2023
Lapworth Museum of Geology,
Birmingham


The third leg of the road show - the Mary Anning maquette has arrived at the Lapworth Museum of Geology - University of Birmingham. The photos show the installation and display being prepared by Aerona Moore. The display will be in the museum until Christmas (2022) and then Mary is going to the National Museum in Cardiff.



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Photo credits: top right and bottom left by Jay Mason-Burns; top left and bottom right by Aerona Moore.




January 7th 2023 - March 31st 2023
National Museum Cardiff
Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd


The fourth leg of the road trip show - the Mary Anning maquette has arrived at the National Museum in Cardiff. The photos show the display and information panels centred around the maquette of Mary. The display will be in the museum until March 31st after which Mary is heading north to Creswell Crags, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.



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Photo credits: Caroline Buttler and Trevor Bailey.

 




March 31st - May 31st 2023

Creswell Crags


The Mary Anning maquette has arrived at Creswell Crags where the display will remain until the end of May. This exhibition looks at what palaeontology is, and what palaeontologist's do, with a focus upon Mary Anning's work before exploring the palaeontology at Creswell Crags.


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June 5th - July 7th 2023

Discover Bucks Museum Aylesbury


The 6th leg of the Mary Anning road trip is to the Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury where the maquette is displayed alongside some fascinating local Jurassic fossils. The display provides a short biography of Mary Anning and describes the statue. The rocks which underly Dorset run NE towards Buckinghamshire. The museum stands on a hill of Portland Limestone while large parts of the Vale of Aylesbury Vale is underlain by the Kimmeridge Clay.


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Photo credits Mike Palmer and Nick Pierpoint



11th-12th July 2023

Girls into Geoscience (GiGs) event at Plymouth University


In July the 10th annual Girls into Geoscience (@girlsingeosci) was hosted at Plymouth University. Two exciting days of field trips and workshops introduced female A level students to the Earth Sciences and demonstrated the world of careers open to Earth Science graduates.

The event on this occasion was slightly different as the Mary Anning maquette was on display as Anya Pearson (@MaryAnningRocks), gave an incredible talk highlighting the importance of having more female statues for more visible female role models. Did you know that there are more statues of Goats or men named ‘John’ in the UK than there are of named women?

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/earth-sciences/girls-into-geoscience


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Photo Credits Jodie Fisher and Plymouth University Colleagues



14th July to 21st September 2023

York Museum Trust, York


The 8th leg of the Mary Anning maquette road trip is to the Yorkshire Natural History Museum in York. The maquette was delivered by GA president Graham Hickman to York Museums Trust staff Curator of Natural Science Sarah King, and Shaun Pickard, (Curator of Natural Science/ Exhibition Tech. Shaun has been responsible for building the amazing exhibition, which was designed by Journal Ltd of Leeds.

There is a packed programme of family activities, self-led trails and events, including the opportunity to meet Mary Anning herself! On select dates they are excited to be welcoming Mary Anning to the Yorkshire Museum where she’ll be on hand to answer any questions and to tell her inspiring story.

Everyone is excited that Mary is in York! It's looking like an amazing, Anning-themed summer.

https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhibition/mary-anning-rocks/


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Image Credits: Top Photos by Graham and Kerry Hickman; Bottom photos by Anthony Chappel-Ross



22nd and 23rd September 2023
Kendal Museum and GA Conference Kendal Arts Center


Mary arrives safely at Kendal Museum delivered by Sarah King.

As part of the Geologists’ Association annual conference this year, Kendal Museum unveiled a new Lakeland Geology room. On Friday the 22nd September, more than sixty geologists from across the country attended a reception at the museum which included a presentation from the Natural History curator, Carol Davies, after which Graham Hickman, the President of the Geologists’ Association declared the new ‘Sedgwick and Ruthven Room’ officially open.

The Geologists’ Association’s Annual Conference was held in Kendal this year which coincided with 50th anniversary of the Westmorland Geological Society. For the night we were also graced with a visit from fossil-hunting heroine Mary Anning, in the form of a beautiful maquette made by sculptor Denise Dutton. A self-taught palaeontologist who was underrecognized in her time, Mary Anning's discoveries helped transform scientific understanding of prehistoric life.

https://www.westmorlandgeolsoc.co.uk/

https://mailchi.mp/1cf854410121/kendal-museum-news-9334519?e=039aacbf23


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6th to 14th October 2024
Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh


Edinburgh Geological host a public lecture on World Geodiversity day (6th October) by Tom Sharpe - Mary Anning and her Sea-Dragons.
The lecture celebrates UNESCO International Geodiversity Day: a worldwide celebration, bringing people together on 6th October each year, to promote all the many aspects of geodiversity.

https://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/

https://dynamicearth.org.uk/


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Tom Sharpe - Mary Anning and her Sea-Dragons

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Hermione Cockburn is the Science Director at Our Dynamic Earth, Dr Mark Wilkinson is a lecturer at university of Edinburgh and current President of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Tom Sharpe retired university, lecture, museum curator, authority on Mary Anning, and Robert Gatliff former President of EGS, founder trustee of the Scottish Geology Trust and a former Science Director at BGS.



4th of November 2023
Geologists’ Association Festival of Geology at
University College London,
Gower Street, London


FoG is one of the largest free geology festivals in the country, which this year included a Lecture on ‘The Geology of Hogwarts’ by Dr Leanne Hughes of the BGS. Special Exhibition of Greenough & William Smith Geological Maps. The Mary Anning maquette was there to welcome visitors as they entered the building, and being near the RockWatch activities was viewed and photographed by groups of all ages.


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Setting up the maquette and photographic competition exhibition at UCL



7 November, 2023 - 5 January, 2024
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery


The fabulous early career team from ExploretheArch behind the #FossilFinderInUsAll exhibition, who welcomed #MaryAnning to the museum, ready for the new display, which is also open 7th November.

Huge thanks to Mary Anning Rocks and Geologists' Association for making this possible!

https://www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/exhibitions/mary-anning-rocks/


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Sarah Stafford delivers the maquette to Phil Hadland at Hasting Museum
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Photographer: Rod Morris (i:roadfactoryfilms)