Who is Warren Somerville

Mr Warren Somerville is an extraordinary Australian.

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 then 25 years, an orchardist in Orange, he has spent a lifetime building one of the world's leading private collections of minerals and fossils.

The Somerville Collection comprises both Australian and international specimens, including fossils up to 1000 million years old. As part of the museum project, Warren has been appointed as the full-time Curator of the collection as well as a professor on the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University.

Mr Warren Somerville has donated his priceless life's work and legacy to the people of Australia. As the Collection Curator he continues to add to this valuable collection, fossicking and trading with collectors from around the world.