New Scientist recommends the esoteric Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

I cherish idiosyncratic museums: the more unusual, esoteric and single-minded the better. Spying Dinosaurland Fossil Museum while fossil-hunting in Lyme Regis, UK, I had to visit.

The museum, run out of a Grade 1 listed church by a former oil company palaeontologist, promises “no flashy bits” – and delivers. Handmade cabinets hold over 20,000 specimens, from a hoard of local fossils to an eclectic global mix – including a 73-kilogram lump of dinosaur dung.

There are also models of dinosaurs, aiming for accuracy, but which, the museum admits, prioritise “ambience”. The last room, for example, is…