The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum - Home of the Somerville Collection is located in the city of Bathurst in regional New South Wales Australia and was opened in July 2004.

[2] The main attraction for tourists and enthusiasts is the 10½ metre long and 4-metre high Tyrannosaurus rex (T.Rex) skeleton.

Also in the collection is an extremely rare fossilised Gecko trapped in amber between 30 and 24 million years ago.

The holder of five degrees, a part-time university lecturer for more than 20 years, a full-time teacher in the NSW TAFE for more than 25 years, and an orchardist in Orange, he has spent a lifetime building one of the world's leading private collections of minerals and fossils.

Lonely Planet travellers have rated the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum as the #1 attraction of 27 in the Central West (New South Wales).