The Seaton Down Roman coin hoard will stay in Devon thanks to a number of donations and grants.
The hoard has been purchased by Exeter’s RAM Museum for £50,000, allowing it to be kept together and displayed for the benefit of the people of Devon and Exeter and for Hoardfuture generations.
The purchase and conservation of the hoard of coins was made possible by contributions from Devon County Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Clinton Devon Estates, a private donation by Patrick Long, and members of the public.
Bill Horner, the county archaeologist, said: “We are...
Activities at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) using the museum and its objects to boost people’s wellbeing were recognised with an award from Arts & Health South West, an umbrella group promoting and supporting arts activities to benefit people’s health.
Like RAMM, Arts & Health South West believes that the arts, creativity and the imagination are agents of wellness, helping keep the individual resilient, aiding recovery and fostering a flourishing society. RAMM’s wellbeing programme uses the museum collections to help people make the most of...
Exquisite early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora are the focus of the latest exhibition in the Naturally Inspired season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM).
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine....
An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the Company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine. One of the world’s oldest medicinal systems, it has been practiced...
Exquisite early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora are the focus of the latest exhibition in the Naturally Inspired season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM).
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine....
Tiverton Museum is kicking the Bank Holiday weekend off to a great start with a special family day.
On Saturday 30th April there will be plenty of fun activities for all the family to enjoy.Activities include dressing up as a Victorian and taking part in a Victorian style school lesson, complete with strict school ma’am and writing on slates.
There will be a chance to get creative with crafts such as making a peg doll or a paper game, and games and toys will be available, including organized sessions playing ‘Hunt the thimble’ and ‘Elements’.If the weather allows, our...
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) is celebrating Dementia Awareness Week (Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 May) with a dementia-friendly art session and a slideshow highlighting the museum’s monthly programme of events.
RAMM aims to be a welcoming museum to all its visitors. Its dementia-friendly programme – Living Each Season – provides regular opportunities for people with memory problems and their carers to do something enjoyable together.
Photographs projected in the courtyard will bring to life the steps being taken alongside local partner organisations to make...
Exeter collector Heather Coleman has turned her passion for old clay tobacco pipes into a business and now supplies crafted clay pipes worldwide for television, film and theatre. Most recently a selection of her pipes appeared in the popular TV series Poldark and she has also made special pipes for many well-known people including President Obama, Johnny Depp, the late Terry Pratchett, and comedian Phil Jupitus.
Her collection of historical pipes is currently on display at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM). They date from the 1580s right through to the 1920s and include...
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum Development Trust announces today that Rathbone Investment Management is sponsoring the fifth series of classical concerts at the museum in April, May and June 2016.
Following the successful concert series held over the past four years, RAMM’s Development Trust has organised another series of classical concerts to be held at RAMM. The series will start on Wednesday 27th April with internationally acclaimed pianist, Martin Roscoe, playing Debussy, Schumann and Beethoven.
On Wednesday 25th May, cellist, Michael Petrov and pianist, Erdem...
