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Re-Make & Craft! Free family drop-in days for half-term at Devon Guild

Event Date: 
31/03/2015 - 10:15am to 01/04/2015 - 5:15pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen

FREE Family Drop-in days: re-make & craft (half-term) Tuesday 31 March, 10.15am - 12.30pm & 1.30 - 4pm Join Thomas Cadbury, Curator of Antiquities at RAMM, and Guild staff for the opportunity to handle prehistoric objects and investigate real Roman and Elizabethan artefacts as well as creating your own antiquities inspired by the exhibition. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

FREE Family drop-in day - join two exhibitors from Re-Making the Past exhibition at the Guild. Re-make & craft your own exciting work to take home! Shadow Play with Maps and Lichens with...

Celebrating Devon Wildlife at RAMM

Starting on Saturday 28 March, Ebb & Flow: Seasonal sounds through the Devon Year, a new installation at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), will be a celebration of the incredible range of habitats and variety of species to be found within a 20mile radius of Exeter.

Award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson combines the sounds of birds, insects, crustaceans, molluscs and the elements to create a compelling tribute to Devon wildlife. Sounds include limpets scraping algae from rocks in rockpools, the rubbing wings of chirping crickets, the sonic boom of pistol shrimps...

Dance and Textiles Performance

Event Date: 
26/03/2015 - 11:30am
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Performances by Exeter College dance and textile students inspired by RAMM’s collections.

Drop in, 11.30am - 12 noon

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Everys Pre-Budget discussion

Event Date: 
11/03/2015 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Sir Alan Budd, Former Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility and Geoffrey Dicks MBE in conversation discussing Sir Alan’s life as an economist, the forthcoming Budget and Election and how they will affect the economy.

Organised by RAMM Development Trust, Registered charity no 1038570. The trust raises money through its patron scheme, sponsorship, events and grant applications.

Tickets £15 (£10)

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Victorian Gothic Church Architecture ** sold out **

Event Date: 
11/03/2015 - 10:15am
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Talk and visits to St David’s and St Michael’s churches with history consultant Richard Parker.

Part of the busy programme of events linked to RAMM’s major exhibition Art & Soul: Victorians and the Gothic.

10.15am - 1.00pm

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Metal Mining in Devon and Cornwall: past perspectives and future prospects ** sold out **

Event Date: 
04/03/2015 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Dr Richard Scrivener, formerly of the British Geological Survey, will talk about tin mining in the South West from the early Bronze Age to Devon’s new metal mine at Hemerdon in south Devon, a world class tungsten-tin deposit set to commence production in 2015.

1.10pm - 2.15pm

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Tour of RAMM’s permanent collection

Event Date: 
21/03/2015 - 11:00am
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Tour of RAMM’s permanent collection Join a 60-minute tour of RAMM’s permanent collection.

All tours of RAMM’s permanent collection and changing art exhibitions are available for private group bookings on mutually agreed dates from E ramm.extra@exeter.gov.uk or T 01392 265984.

11am-noon

Tickets £5

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Tour of RAMM’s permanent collection

Event Date: 
04/03/2015 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Join a 60-minute tour of RAMM’s permanent collection.

All tours of RAMM’s permanent collection and changing art exhibitions are available for private group bookings on mutually agreed dates from E ramm.extra@exeter.gov.uk or T 01392 265984.

2pm - 3pm

Tickets £5

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Creative dating at Exeter Museum

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is getting romantic this February with two events lined up.

The Valentine’s Vintage Ball brings dance music and theatre to the Museum. The Hot Tin Roofs will bring a raucous blend of swing, shake and rhythm & blues.

The Lindy Hoppers will on-hand with dance lessons, Nuts and Volts theatre company will be in residence researching the history of romance and there will be ElectroSwing DJs, Alfie’s Black Cab Photobooth and a vintage dressing up theme.

The event takes place on Saturday 14 February, from 7 to...

New exhibition reveals the impact of the First World War on art and facial reconstructive surgery

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 10:21am

A new exhibition exploring how facial injuries suffered by soldiers during the First World War have influenced artists and surgeons will open this weekend. The ‘Faces of Conflict’ exhibition is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, and brings together historical objects such as surgical instruments and masks and works by artists such as Otto Dix, Wyndham Lewis, René Apallec and Paddy Hartley. It is part of the European Union-funded project 1914FACES2014 led by Professor David Houston Jones from the University of Exeter and...

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