Chat about the Birds at RAMM with the RSPB

Event Date: 
06/12/2012 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Experts from the RSPB will be available to talk about the birds in RAMM’s collection and how they connect to the RSPB.

10am-4pm, free.

www.rammuseum.org.uk

RAMM Exhibition: Exeter's Fine Art Collection

Event Date: 
01/12/2012 - 10:00am to 25/03/2013 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Musuem, Queen Street, Exeter

This new display of RAMM’s own art includes city views, 20th-century Devon landscapes and striking portraits. Fascinating prints and drawings reveal Exeter before the bombings of the Second World War changed the city forever.

The exhibition features John Constable’s newly identified portrait of the poet William Wordsworth. On show for the first time will be a large contemporary landscape painting of a scene in East Devon donated by the artist Robert Organ in 2011.

Hawksmoor Autumn Concert Series: Castalian Quartet

Event Date: 
06/12/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Haydn: Quartet Op.64 No.6 Mendelssohn: Quartet Op.44 No.2 Beethoven: Quartet in F minor Op.95 “Serioso”

Winners of the 2011 Royal Overseas League Elias Fawcett Award for an outstanding chamber music ensemble, the Castalian String Quartet have rapidly gained a reputation in festivals and concert halls in the UK and abroad.

The Quartet has toured in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden as well as performing in the Wigmore Hall and recently broadcasting live on BBC Radio 3.

Tickets are £16, £14 conc available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392...

Ghostwriter: digital art by award-winning Blast Theory

Event Date: 
27/11/2012 - 10:00am to 30/12/2012 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Ghostwriter by Blast Theory is a contemporary artwork which takes the form of a phone call.

It has echoes of a ghostly museum guide and its rich atmosphere acts as a mysterious lure into RAMM.

Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media.

Access Ghostwriter on your mobile phone during your visit to RAMM. Calls are charged at standard rates. A free phone is also available from reception.

www.rammuseum.org.uk

www.blasttheory.co.uk

RAMM display: Water, Water Everywhere .....

Event Date: 
02/12/2012 - 10:00am to 06/01/2013 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Finders Keepers Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum Queen Street, Exeter

In the latest of our special displays for local collectors, we present one man’s extraordinary collection of bottled water.

The water samples come from all over the world, fetched by travellers, from taps and puddles.

Each one contains memories of a particular time and place.

14th November - 6th January

www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions

RAMM Lunchtime Lecture with carver Tatu Nikkanen

Event Date: 
28/11/2012 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Meeting Room A, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Home Gods: an introduction to ancient Finnish animism

Carver Tatu Nikkanen surveys the origins of his work with the cult of guardian spirits.

Tickets cost £4.50 (£3) and are available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.

RAMM exhibition: Local Art Show in Gallery 22

Event Date: 
22/11/2012 - 10:00am to 05/12/2012 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Gallery 22, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

This exhibition showcases the work of one local art society chosen by readers of the Express and Echo newspaper.

Together with the Express and Echo RAMM invited art groups and societies whose members are largely drawn from the Exeter area to win the chance to exhibit a selection of their work in the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year.

Ritual and Honour - Warfare among Plains Indians

Event Date: 
21/11/2012 - 2:45pm
Venue: 
Gallery 21, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Gallery walk and talk: Ritual and Honour - Warfare among Plains Indians

Max Carocci is Project Curator in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum and has curated the exhibition Warriors of the Plains. His talk will cover continuities and changes in traditional approaches to war from warriors to soldiers.

2.45pm-3.45pm, tickets cost £4.50 (£3) and are available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.

Plains Peoples in American and European Art

Event Date: 
21/11/2012 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Meeting Room A, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Dr Stephanie Pratt, Associate Professor of Art History at Plymouth University, will discuss visual representation of Plains peoples in American and European art. Followed by a gallery walk and talk by Project Curator Max Carocci.

1pm-2pm.

Tickets £4.50 (£3) and are available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.

Friends' Drecki Lecture: A Painter’s Journey to Everest

Event Date: 
20/11/2012 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Alan Cotton will talk about his two trips to Tibet last year with the explorer David Hempleman- Adams. He will discuss how his paintings are produced.

In partnership with the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts.

Tickets are £5 from the museum in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during RAMM opening hours.

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