Our latest exhibition. ‘Buried in Time’ , tells the story of the area’s history through an amazing selection of fossils from the Jurassic era and marks the 20th Anniversary of the Jurassic Coast becoming a World Heritage Site. West Bay itself, is situated around a third of the way along Read more…
We have been amazed and delighted to have received so many awards of the past few months! To the outsider it might feel as if all we do is put in for awards – which isn’t the case we are too busy welcoming, running the centre and planning new events Read more…
We recently attended the spring party of the 2021/22 Dorset Tourism Awards enjoyed at Sculpture by the Lakes. We were expecting to pick up three awards which were awarded back in February via zoom. Three additional awards were awarded on the night and to our surprise and delight we were Read more…
Hard on the heels of the gold award the West Bay Discovery Centre collected at South-west Tourism Excellence Awards 2021/22, the Centre has now been chosen to go forward to the Visit England national tourism award finals. The Centre stands to win gold, silver or bronze in Ethical, Responsible & Read more…
Each pop up exhibition takes a huge amount of staff and volunteer time to research and produce. Community involvement and expertise is essential, we work closely with local experts to get things right and learn so much along the way! When the exhibition is finished we recycle the materials that Read more…
On Thursday night a few of us headed down to Sandy Park (home of Exeter Chiefs) for the South West Tourism Awards. We were up for the Ethical, Responsible & Sustainable Business Award category and we were amazed when we won GOLD!! It is a really impressive achievement considering we were Read more…
The finalists of this year’s South West Tourism Tourism Awards have been announced and West Bay Discovery Centre is amongst the finalists in the ‘ Ethical, Sustainable and Responsible and Sustainable Tourism.’ This guarantees the Centre either a gold, silver, bronze award at the finals on the Thursday 7th April Read more…
WOW we are over the moon to announce that in the Dorset Tourism Awards 2021/22 we have just WON… . BRONZE in Small Visitor Attraction of the Year GOLD in Ethical, Responsible & Sustainable Business GOLD in Visitor Information Service of the Year Thanks to our amazing team at West Read more…
The finalists of this year’s Dorset Tourism Awards have been announced and West Bay Discovery Centre is amongst the finalists in no less than three award categories. This guarantees the Centre either a gold, silver, bronze award at the finals on the 10th February 2022. The categories are Best Small Read more…
West Bay’s iconic golden East Cliffs are chiefly made up of Bridport Sands- rocks that formed from layers of sand in the shallow tropical Jurassic seas around 175 million years ago. Each metre of cliff took 20,000 years to form- and at about 43 metres high that means that when Read more…