Boosted by its success in the three categories of this year's Dorset Tourism Awards, the West Bay Discovery Centre is now open six days a week for the summer season.

The centre is back with a new pop-up exhibition, 'Buried in Time'. It features the coastal geology of the West Bay area and celebrates the 20th anniversary of the World Heritage Coast designation. It includes fossil specimens of creatures from the Jurassic age some 170 million years ago.

A spokesman for the discovery centre said: "The exhibition reveals that buried beneath our feet and in the towering cliffs is a history, not just of West Bay, but of the development of the earth through hundreds of millions of years. It makes the link between fossils and the real-life creatures that lived in Jurassic seas.

"Buried in Time also tells the story of three individual fossil collectors, including how a boy's first chance fossil find near West Bay led to a lifetime of interest that in turn helped shape scientific understanding of the development of the earth."

The exhibition includes hands-on activities for children and will be supported by talks and guided walks. The exhibition offers an entry point to understanding the World Heritage Coast, its geological processes and fossils, hopefully sparking an interest to find out more.

The exhibition runs until the end of October.

The centre, which operates on a charitable basis, is open from 11am to 4pm Tuesday to Sunday. It does not charge admission but welcomes donations from visitors to help meet its running costs.

Find out more at westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk

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