Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
Fully refurbished after a multimillion pound redevelopment, the new displays showcase the collections and collectors that have helped RAMM to become one of Britain’s finest regional museums.
They tell the story of Exeter and Devon from the prehistoric to the present but, more than a local museum, its internationally important world cultures and natural history collections also tell a story of global exploration and collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Original architectural features have been revealed allowing visitors to experience the splendour of the original Victorian spaces. The extension includes a suite of modern, flexible exhibition galleries allowing RAMM to bring to the South West prestigious loans and exhibitions from national partners. Modern services improve the care of visitors and the collections alike.
A new garden entrance links the Victorian museum to its historic surroundings and the neighbouring gardens. The area is one of only five sites classified by English Heritage as an Area of Archaeological Importance.
You can also visit St Nicholas Priory - A Tudor Home, at the Mint, off Fore St Exeter. In part of what was once a medieval priory this splendid building was later lived in by the wealthy Hurst family. It is now presented as their Elizabethan town house with replica furniture, sumptuous fabrics and rich colours. Come and feel at home in this historic family home. Open on Saturdays and on weekdays during school holidays 10.00 - 17.00. Admission £2.50 for adults (Concessions £.00), children £1.00 (0-5yrs free). All children aged under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. www.exeter.gov.uk/priory
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This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
The world cultures collections at this museum are Designated Collections of national importance.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum collections contain important items from cultures in every continent outside Europe.
Collection details
World Cultures, Natural Sciences, Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- Designated Collection
Collections services
- Specialist publications on collections available
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
RAMM display: Home to a Million Thoughts
RAMM has always been a place to stimulate thought and new ideas, to reflect on the old and follow trends as they lead to the future. In this tradition, RAMM reopened in December inviting visitors to help make it a home to a million thoughts.
Presented in association with Exeter Health Care Arts.
Where
First floor corridor approaching the Oasis Café, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford), Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW
Into the Light: French and British paintings from Impressionism to the early 1920s
Into The Light brings together some of the most significant names working on either side of the Channel including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley, Stanhope Forbes and Whistler.
This exhibition of French and British Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art is something that has never before been undertaken in the south west. Into The Light surveys the production of paintings on both sides of the Channel between the 1880s and 1920s. Complementing the character of the south west, the exhibition explores the themes of coast and countryside.
Suitable for
- Any age
- Family friendly
Where
Galleries 20 and 21
Admission
Free.
Website
International Garden Photographer of the Year
International Garden Photographer of the Year is the world’s premier competition and exhibition specialising in garden, plant, flower and botanical photography. The wonderful array of images aims to stimulate an interest in photography, offer a pause for thought and an opening of the eyes. Gardens are a haven not only for plants and wildlife but for people too. To find out about the competition visit www.igpoty.com
Throughout 2012 RAMM will be celebrating photography through a diverse range of exhibitions and activities. It begins with the 19th-century work of Fenton and Cameron and continues with International Garden Photographer of the Year and Home by Garry Fabian Miller.
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
International Garden Photographer of the Year
The world's premier competition and exhibition specialising in garden, plant, flower and botanical photography. It is run in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Started by a group of professional garden photographers in 2007, it has quickly grown to become the world’s premier exhibition of garden and plant photography.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
Website
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/international-garden-photographer-of-the-year
Exhibition at RAMM: Home – Garry Fabian Miller
Home includes new works by the internationally acclaimed artist Garry Fabian Miller, one of the most highly regarded figures in camera-less photography. Garry Fabian Miller has lived on Dartmoor since the late 1980s and has exhibited extensively in Europe, Japan and the United States. A new publication is being produced for this exhibition which is supported by Arts Council England.
Throughout 2012 RAMM will be celebrating photography through a diverse range of exhibitions and activities. It begins with the 19th-century work of Fenton and Cameron and continues with International Garden Photographer of the Year and Home by Garry Fabian Miller.
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
RAMM display: A fan of fans
Finders Keepers? is a gallery devoted to collectors and collecting. A special display case in this gallery features the passions of contemporary local collectors. This changing programme begins with Tony Cheung’s collection of fans. Originally from Hong Kong, Tony came to the UK in 1996 and moved to Exeter in 2004. He has a passion for Chinese arts and crafts and around 1998 he began to turn his attention to fans. “I used to go regularly to Covent Garden and saw fans there. Then I noticed them in antique shops and markets. I love the ornate decoration."
Where
Finders Keepers? gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Roger Fenton & Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection
Photographs by two of Britain’s most accomplished photographers of the nineteenth century: Roger Fenton (1819-69) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). Some were commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, others purchased directly from the photographer.
Together they demonstrate the royal couple’s involvement in the early photographic world.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
Website
The Road to Rome: Artists and Travellers on the Grand Tour
The acquisition of the painting John Rolle Walter by Pompeo Batoni with HLF support provided us with a great opportunity to explore the history of the eighteenth century Grand Tour from a personal, regional and national perspective within a single exhibition.
Important paintings by Richard Wilson (National Museum of Wales, Pompeo Batoni (The National Gallery), Joseph Wright (Tate) and Canaletto (Royal Collection). Primary sources, such as the letters of Joseph Spence and maps and guidebooks from the British Library and regional archives will be on display to inform the interpretation throughout.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
Website
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/the-road-to-rome-artists-and-travellers-on-the-grand-tour
Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography
This exhibition explores the range of approaches to fashion image-making from the 1911 to today, it comprises sixty photographs, including many rarely exhibited and recently acquired works by twenty photographers including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Corinne Day and Tim Walker.
This is the first touring exhibition from the V&A's Collection to showcase the work of international fashion photographers and to draw together such a broad range of important historic and contemporary fashion images.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
Website
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/selling-dreams-100-years-of-fashion-photography
Invisible Powers
In the 19th century when collector Richard E Dennett went to work in a trading centre on the Congo coast little was understood about the religious beliefs of Central Africa. Dennett came into regular contact with BaKongo people and made key observations about their way of life. These observations were later published and they provided the western world with a glimpse into this little-known culture. Dennett donated to RAMM a group of African items that were used to connect with an invisible world of spirits. This display provides a window onto Dennett’s life and the world of those invisible powers.
Where
World Cultures gallery
A Symphony of Curves: Geoffrey Preston – a tradition in plaster
This exhibition tells the story of the art of decorative architectural plasterwork in Britain, through a focus on one of the UK’s leading practitioners: Exeter-based architectural sculptor, Geoffrey Preston.
A showcase of Geoffrey's work it places it in its historical context. Displays include a mixture of his original plasterworks, moulded works created from original clay designs and photographs showing some of his principal commissions. Designs, tools, maquettes and other equipment (casts etc) tell the story of how decorative plasterwork is created.
Examples of historic plasterwork from RAMM's collections are also be on display.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
Website
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/a-symphony-of-curves-geoffrey-preston-a-tradition-in-plaster
Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual
A rare opportunity to explore the fascinating world of Native North American warfare and ritual.
The exhibition focuses on the material culture of Native North American Indians of the Plains between 1800 and the present, and the importance of the objects in a social and ceremonial context.
Suitable for
- Any age
- Family friendly
Admission
Free.
Website
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
Lunchtime lecture: The Emergence of Modernism
Dr Carol Brand will focus on the exhibitions, art critics, debates and events in the art world as more avant-garde forms of modernism emerged around 1910 in England.
Linked to the RAMM exhibition Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant names in art, including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley and Whistler.
Suitable for
- 18+
- Not suitable for children
When
1-2pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
£4.00 (£3.50). Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm.
Family activity: Butter making
Bring along a pint of fresh double cream and make butter the Elizabethan way. Wear clothes that can get splashed with cream!
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
St Nicholas Priory, the Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL
Admission
Admission charged. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Family activity: Butter making
Bring along a pint of fresh double cream and make butter the Elizabethan way. Wear clothes that can get splashed with cream!
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
St Nicholas Priory, the Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL
Admission
Admission charged. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
RAMM Sunday special: Animated RAMM
See an animator at work as they create a short film specially about RAMM for the Animated Exeter festival (6 to 19 February).
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
When
10am-4pm
Where
Courtyard, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Animation days
Join in a collective animation bringing characters in impressionist artworks to life – how did they get there and what did they do next?
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Places limited; please call 01392 265858 for free tickets. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Animation days
Join in a collective animation bringing characters in impressionist artworks to life – how did they get there and what did they do next?
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Places limited; please call 01392 265858 for free tickets. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Animation days
Join in a collective animation bringing characters in impressionist artworks to life – how did they get there and what did they do next?
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Places limited; please call 01392 265858 for free tickets. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Animation days
Join in a collective animation bringing characters in impressionist artworks to life – how did they get there and what did they do next?
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Places limited; please call 01392 265858 for free tickets. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Painting: fur and face and far away
Top class 18th-century Italian artist Pompeo Batoni painted portraits for his rich clients on the Grand Tour. Now it’s your turn. Paint or make a collage portrait or bring along a photograph to transform into a work of art.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Painting: fur and face and far away
Top class 18th-century Italian artist Pompeo Batoni painted portraits for his rich clients on the Grand Tour. Now it’s your turn. Paint or make a collage portrait or bring along a photograph to transform into a work of art.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Gallery Soap-box Sessions
These dynamic five-minute dialogues relating to specific paintings are the personal interpretations of RAMMbassadors, a group of students from the University of Plymouth’s Art History department.
Linked to the RAMM exhibition Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant names in art, including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley and Whistler. Complementing the character of the South West, the exhibition explores themes of coast and countryside, cross-Channel connections and the major trends in painting between the 1880s and 1920s.
When
1-1:30pm
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Family activity: Painting: Impressionist techniques
Try out the painting techniques of the impressionist painters who experimented and strove to capture the moment in light and colour.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Painting: Impressionist techniques
Try out the painting techniques of the impressionist painters who experimented and strove to capture the moment in light and colour.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Painting: stripes and metals
This painting activity is inspired by the work of Maria Lalic.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Family activity: Painting: stripes and metals
This painting activity is inspired by the work of Maria Lalic.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Meeting room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
RAMM Sunday special: Animated RAMM
See an animator at work as they create a short film specially about RAMM for the Animated Exeter festival (6 to 19 February).
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
When
10am-4pm
Where
Courtyard, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
RAMM Sunday special: Victorian photographer
Meet Victorian photographers who know all about early cameras and have your photograph taken in Victorian costume.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-12:30pm
Where
Making History gallery, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
RAMM Sunday special: Victorian photographer
Meet Victorian photographers who know all about early cameras and have your photograph taken in Victorian costume.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
1:30-3:30pm
Where
Making History gallery, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free drop-in session. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. If an activity is very busy, there may be a short wait. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Friends of RAMM lunchtime lecture: Revealing Insects
The insects in RAMM’s natural history collections have been largely hidden from public view for many years. The redevelopment has given an opportunity to do justice to RAMM’s collections and these small but vital creatures. Holly Morgenroth, Assistant Curator of Natural History, will talk about the history of some of the insect collections and collectors. She will also explain the decisions and processes (design, layouts, mounting and installing) involved in putting together the new displays.
When
1-2pm
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Tickets available from 16 January by post from Friends Ticket Sales, RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX (cheques made payable to Exeter City Council; please enclose a stamped addressed envelope) or from RAMM’s receptions.
Lunchtime lecture: A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach – the creation of a masterpiece
Alan Read will explore how 27-year old Stanhope Forbes created a masterpiece in 1885 which established his reputation and drew attention to the group of painters soon to emerge as the Newlyn School. He will look at Forbes’s early life, artistic influences, art school training and the practicalities of painting this much-loved canvas. Alan will also challenge the notion that this is a ‘realistic’ painting.
Linked to the RAMM exhibition Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant names in art, including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley and Whistler. Complementing the character of the South West, the exhibition explores themes of coast and countryside, cross-Channel connections and the major trends in painting between the 1880s and 1920s.
When
1-2pm
Where
Meeting Room A, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Admission
£4.00 (£3.50)
Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm. Methods of payment we accept include Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover and Duet. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded but can be offered for re-sale for sold-out events.
Ghostwriter: Meet the artists
Gallery walk and talk: Blast Theory introduce and demonstrate their digital artwork, Ghostwriter, an interactive phone call that subtly hovers between the present and the past, between the here and the elsewhere. Ghostwriter has echoes of a museum guide, of a radio heard late at night. Its ghostly tenor and rich atmosphere act as a mysterious lure into the reinvented RAMM.
When
1-2pm
Where
Garden room, Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Admission
Places are limited; free tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or online at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm.
Website
Exe Estuary winter cruise
Enjoy a late winter cruise on the Exe Estuary with RSPB experts and curators from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
RAMM partners RSPB have organised this late winter cruise on the Exe Estuary to celebrate the museum’s new In Fine Feather gallery. Experts from RSPB and curators from RAMM will be on hand to help passengers make the most of the trip. Even though this is a late season cruise, there will still be good numbers of avocets, black-tailed godwits, brent geese and red-breasted mergansers feeding in the estuary.
RSPB has supported RAMM in the development of the new birds gallery and from time to time RSPB volunteers will be in the gallery to share their knowledge and enthusiasm.
Don’t forget to wear very warm clothes! Light refreshments can be purchased on board. There is a toilet on the boat, My Queen (one of the boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation).
Directions
The private jetty at Starcross is easily accessible by bus, rail, car or bicycle.
Bus: 2 (Exeter/Dawlish/Teignmouth/Newton Abbot). Bus stop close to Starcross Station.
Rail: frequent service on Exeter St Davids/Dawlish/Newton Abbot/Plymouth/Penzance route.
Bicycle: Exeter Canal path. Road travel for the last 2-3 miles.
Car: Starcross is on the west side of the Exe Estuary, on the A379 approximately halfway between Exeter and Dawlish Warren. Leave your car in the public car park just along from Starcross railway station on the A379 (Not the PRIVATE car park close to the station!). A signpost will direct you to cross the footbridge at the railway station to our private pier.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
2:30pm-
Where
Leaving from RSPB’s Starcross jetty
Admission
Adults £7, children free
Call the RSPB on 01392 432691 to book your place.
Website
Gallery soap-box sessions
These dynamic five-minute dialogues relating to specific paintings are the personal interpretations of RAMMbassadors, a group of students from the University of Plymouth’s Art History department.
Linked to the RAMM exhibition Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant names in art, including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley and Whistler. Complementing the character of the South West, the exhibition explores themes of coast and countryside, cross-Channel connections and the major trends in painting between the 1880s and 1920s.
When
1-1:30pm
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
2-4pm
Where
Garden Room, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in
Sunday special: The Romans have arrived
RAMM’s popular Roman soldier returns with his contuburnium to chat about life in Legion II Augusta’s time at Isca and life in its Roman fort around 50 to 70 AD.
Activites run between 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
When
10:30am-3:30pm
Where
Making History gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in.
If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Lunchtime lecture: Pictures for the people – Photography and the royal family 1840-1880
Professor John Plunkett from the University of Exeter will explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s interest in photography as collectors. This lecture also shows them as subjects of the photography industry which was fast becoming a commercial and popular media for disseminating the images of distinguished people and ‘celebrities’.
When
1-2pm
Where
Meeting Room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
£4.00 (£3.50)
Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm. Methods of payment we accept include Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover and Duet. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded but can be offered for re-sale for sold-out events.
Gallery soap-box sessions
These dynamic five-minute dialogues relating to specific paintings are the personal interpretations of RAMMbassadors, a group of students from the University of Plymouth’s Art History department.
Linked to the RAMM exhibition Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant names in art, including Clausen, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sickert, Sisley and Whistler. Complementing the character of the South West, the exhibition explores themes of coast and countryside, cross-Channel connections and the major trends in painting between the 1880s and 1920s.
When
1-1:30pm
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
10am-12pm
Where
Garden Room, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
2-4pm
Where
Garden Room, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in
Sunday special: World War 2 and the Home Front
Come and share memories of life on the home front in Exeter during the Second World War, from Make do and Mend to ARP wardens and songs from the time.
Activites run between 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
When
10:30am-3:30pm
Where
Making History gallery, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in
If an activity is busy there may be a short wait. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
2-4pm
Where
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Admission
Free, drop in
Lunchtime lecture: Victoria and Albert – A passion for photography
Sophie Gordon, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Royal Collection, will explore how the royal family formed a bond with pioneering British photographers including Roger Fenton and Francis Bedford, commissioning and collecting work that survives today in Windsor Castle. The difference between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as collectors will also be highlighted, drawing on images from the Royal Collection.
When
1-2pm
Where
Meeting Room A, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
£4.00 (£3.50)
Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm. Methods of payment we accept include Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover and Duet. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded but can be offered for re-sale for sold-out events.
Great Exhibitions and Great Debates: Victorian Values and 21st-century Britain – a panel discussion
A panel discussion chaired by renowned political journalist and broadcaster Andrew Marr.
Throughout the 20th and into the 21st-century, artists, historians, politicians and other social commentators have invoked ‘Victorian values’ as both a tagline to celebrate and a stick with which to beat the generations of British subjects who lived under Queen Victoria’s rule. For some the Victorians put the ‘Great’ into Great Britain. For others the Victorians are the moralistic oppressors whose influence we need to shake off.
The problem with such accounts is that they flatten out and distort the complexity of the Victorian age, ignoring the extent to which vigorous debates and contested visions characterized the period. This panel will bring to life the arguments and challenges that energized the way in which 19th-century commentators thought about Britain and its position in the world. In doing so, it will allow our panellists and audience members to reflect upon what we might take from the Victorian period as we seek to address the issues and problems confronting British society and culture today.
Topics for discussion might include: the relationship of the state to private enterprise; industrial progress and environmental damage; religious beliefs and scientific orthodoxies; civilizing missions and imperial intervention; women’s rights; child protection; the value of austerity; taxation and Big Society; education and social discipline; immigration, emigration and what it means to be British; museums and the use of the past; binge-drinking and sobriety.
Part of a weekend exploring RAMM’s Victorian legacy. RAMM was built as a memorial to Prince Albert and its reopening in December 2011 coincided with the 150th anniversary of his death. This is a fitting time to explore the Victorians and their relationship with the museum. Weekend ticket, £55 (£50). Includes entry to Friday’s panel discussion, entry to sessions on Saturday, refreshments and light lunch on Saturday.
When
8pm-
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Panel discussion, £25 (£20). Weekend, £55 (£50)
Part of a weekend exploring RAMM’s Victorian legacy. RAMM was built as a memorial to Prince Albert and its reopening in December 2011 coincided with the 150th anniversary of his death. This is a fitting time to explore the Victorians and their relationship with the museum. Weekend ticket, £55 (£50) includes entry to Friday’s panel discussion, entry to sessions on Saturday, refreshments and light lunch on Saturday.
Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm. Methods of payment we accept include Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover and Duet. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded but can be offered for re-sale for sold-out events.
Great Exhibitions and Great Debates: Victorian Values and 21st-century Britain – study sessions
Encountering the Victorians, Exploring RAMM
This collaboration between the University of Exeter’s Centre for Victorian Studies and RAMM sees academics and curators draw on the museum’s rich history and collections.
Explore RAMM’s history and development with:
Dr John Plunkett, University of Exeter, Exhibitions for All: Victorian Civic Culture, Popular Education and the Origins of RAMM
Dr Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, Victorian South West Gothic
Dr Julien Parsons, RAMM, Reinterpreting a Victorian Museum
Examine RAMM’s collections within the national context. These sessions give delegates a chance to see exhibits up close with the help of RAMM’s collections team:
Dr Joanne Parker, University of Exeter, Discovering, Preserving, and Romanticising the South West’s Prehistoric Remains in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Angelique Richardson, University of Exeter, Victorian Natural History
Prof Sam Smiles, University of Plymouth, Victorian Art
Dr Paul Young, University of Exeter, Globalization, Great Exhibitions and World Cultures
Part of a weekend exploring RAMM’s Victorian legacy. RAMM was built as a memorial to Prince Albert and its reopening in December 2011 coincided with the 150th anniversary of his death. This is a fitting time to explore the Victorians and their relationship with the museum. Weekend ticket, £55 (£50). Includes entry to Friday’s panel discussion, entry to sessions on Saturday, refreshments and light lunch on Saturday.
When
-
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
£40 (£35). Ticket includes entry to sessions, refreshments and a light lunch.
Part of a weekend exploring RAMM’s Victorian legacy. RAMM was built as a memorial to Prince Albert and its reopening in December 2011 coincided with the 150th anniversary of his death. This is a fitting time to explore the Victorians and their relationship with the museum. Weekend ticket, £55 (£50) - includes entry to Friday’s panel discussion, entry to sessions on Saturday, refreshments and light lunch on Saturday.
Tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or on line at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm. Methods of payment we accept include Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover and Duet. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded but can be offered for re-sale for sold-out events.
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
10am-12pm
Where
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Admission
Free, drop in
Friends of RAMM spring lecture: Witchcraft in Exeter 1558-1660
Using new research, Mark Stoyle, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, will tell the story of some of the unfortunate Exeter men and women who were accused of witchcraft by their neighbours during the late 16th and early 17th centuries and shows that executions of supposed witches in the city began more than a hundred years earlier than the history books suggest.
When
7pm-
Where
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
£5.00
Tickets available from 16 January by post from Friends Ticket Sales, RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX (cheques made payable to Exeter City Council; please enclose a stamped addressed envelope) or from RAMM’s receptions.
Road to Rome: Gallery walk and talk
John Madin, Curator of The Road to Rome, will lead an informal walk and talk around the exhibition.
The Road to Rome tells the story of the 18th-century Grand Tour from a personal, regional and national perspective with important paintings from the Royal Collection, Tate, National Gallery, National Museum Wales and RAMM’s own collection.
When
1-2pm
Where
Gallery 22, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, ticketed.
Places limited; free tickets are available in person from RAMM’s receptions, by phone on 01392 265858 or online at www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm.
Gripping Yarns: RAMM stories tall and small
Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and South West based theatre company Show of Strength are inviting enthusiastic writers to help create performances in RAMM.
Both new and experienced writers are invited to take part in one or more of a series of free workshops at RAMM developing solo performances based around the exhibits. Twelve pieces will then be selected for live performance later in the year beside the objects that inspired them.
Live performances will take place in RAMM galleries on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
When
2-4pm
Where
Garden Room, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX3 4RX
Admission
Free, drop in
Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter is an interactive phone call that subtly hovers between the present and the past, between the here and the elsewhere. Ghostwriter has echoes of a museum guide, of a radio heard late at night. Its ghostly tenor and rich atmosphere act as a mysterious lure into the reinvented RAMM.
Suitable for
- 11-13
- 14-15
- 16-17
- 18+
Admission
Standard mobile phone rates apply
Website
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
RAMM's Learning Service
RAMM's learning service helps visitors to explore our collections, connect them to the wider world and discover links to their own lives. Our family service supports families to learn together, through imaginative family fun days and collections-linked projects and our schools service helps teachers link the collections to the curriculum.
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/Schools/
Queen Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3RX
England
Website
RAMM's home page
Telephone
01392 665858
Fax
01392 421252
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