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SANDOWN MUSEUM "STILL POPULAR"

Over 76,000 people visited Sandown's Dinosaur Isle Museum in 2009. 

The attraction’s busiest month was August, when 20,008 people went through the doors.  Britain's first purpose-built dinosaur museum opened in August 2001.  Its most successful year was 2002, when almost 86,000 people visited.