Dinosaur farm museum

Military Road, Brighstone, PO30 4PG (view map)
Telephone: 01983 740844
Website: www.dinosaurfarm.co.uk

Open: 10am - 5pm on Sun, Tue and Thur, 1 Apr to 31t Oct. Plus daily in July & Aug inc bank holiday Mon
Admission: Adults £2.50, senior citizens £2, children £1.50.

In 1992 Western Europe's best brachiosaur - 15 metres in length, was discovered on the Isle of Wight. This farm project was launched to bring palaeontology to a wider audience.

You can see and talk to experts conserving dinosaur bones. Handle real dinosaur bones. Bring your camera - there is always something new to see.

You can bring in your own fossils and have your questions answered. This really is a 'hands-on' musuem and there are no barriers between the experts and the visitors. See projects such as the 'Bembridge crocodile' and the Polancanthus, the first in Britain with a more accurate skull.

Also within the site is a museum shop selling themed souvenirs and locally collected fossils. Tea room housed in a converted 17th Century farmhouse.