RAMM supports touring fossil
01 May 2008
Conservation Development Officer, Helena Jaeschke, has been catering for the conservation needs of a splendid ichthyosaur fossil which is touring venues along the Jurassic coast.
The fossil, which was found locally at Charmouth, is on loan from the Natural History Museum in London. 152,212 people have visited the venues where the ichthyosaur was displayed between 5 May 2007 and 31 March 2008 (11 months). Many of these will have been going to the libraries and information centres anyway, but librarians have reported people coming in just to see the fossil. Nearly 24,000 saw it in Exeter Central Library.
