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New Art for Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 04/03/2017 - 10:04pm

RAMM has commissioned a new artwork from the internationally-acclaimed glass sculptor, Steffen Dam, for its major summer exhibition Sea life: Glimpses of the Wonderful.

Dam will produce an artwork consisting of around 16 ‘marine life’ jars containing plausible but fictitious organisms. The work will be inspired by RAMM’s extensive collection of marine specimens in Sladen’s Study. This gallery is dedicated to starfish-expert Percy Sladen and houses his echinoderm collection (starfish, sea urchins and their relatives). It is the largest and most comprehensive echinoderm collection in...

RAMM Friends fill the gap

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 04/03/2017 - 6:10pm

The Friends of Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) have added miniature by the renowned 19th-century Exeter miniaturist, James Leakey (1775-1865), to the city’s Fine Art collection.

The collection includes his drawings, portraits and landscapes but no miniatures; a significant gap for an artist whose reputation as a miniaturist extended beyond the borders of his Devonshire home. Research that revealed the gap was prompted by an enquiry by his descendants.

Cllr Rosie Denham, lead councillor for Economy said “This a great addition to the city’s...

Roman celebration at RAMM

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 01/19/2017 - 11:23am

The Seaton Down Hoard Roman Roadshow will be at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum’s (RAMM) on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 February 2017.

Buried in East Devon around AD350 and only discovered in 2013, the Seaton Down Hoard is made up of 22,888 coins and three iron ingots. It is the fourth largest hoard of Roman coins ever found.

Saving it for Devon was made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Clinton Estates, a private donation by Patrick Long, and many contributions by members of the public. To celebrate its return, a Roman Roadshow is touring Devon.

The...

Major funding for RAMM’s World Cultures galleries

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 01/17/2017 - 5:56pm

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will redisplay the World Cultures gallery with a new £190,000 grant from DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund.

The award was one of the £4 million grants announced by Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, today. Councillor Paul Bull, Exeter City Lead Councillor for Communities and Culture, said: “Exeter is proud to have one of the country’s best World Cultures collections.

"We are ambitious in our desire to make Exeter’s collections widely accessible, informative and enjoyable for visitors. We...

Seaton Down Hoard Roman Roadshow

Event Date: 
11/02/2017 - 10:00am to 12/02/2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

The Seaton Down Hoard Roman Roadshow will be at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum’s (RAMM) on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 February 2017.

Buried in East Devon around AD350 and only discovered in 2013, the Seaton Down Hoard is made up of 22,888 coins and three iron ingots. It is the fourth largest hoard of Roman coins ever found.

Saving it for Devon was made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Clinton Estates, a private donation by Patrick Long, and many contributions by members of the public. To celebrate its return, a Roman Roadshow is touring Devon.

The...

Music video filmed at RAMM

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 11/03/2016 - 11:55am

Devon’s latest Inde band sensation The Loft Club have released their music video - filmed at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and featuring Gerald Exeter’s iconic giraffe - to accompany their first EP: Heart’s Desire.

Singer-songwriter Daniel Schamroth said "RAMM was our dream location for the music video as it's such visual feast! We are honoured to be the first band to be allowed to film there, thanks to all the kind staff and of course to Gerald the Giraffe who was the star of the show!"

The Loft Club is the first Devon band to be signed-up by the Universal...

Deaf Academy students and RAMM to launch unique film

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/12/2016 - 10:52am

Exeter Deaf Academy students will share what they imagine might happen at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) at night in the launch of their “Writing With Our Hands” film on Wednesday 19th October.

The showing is part of Exeter’s exetreme imagination festival of writing and stories.

Inspired by objects from the RAMM collection, Exeter Deaf Academy students have produced a book of poetry entitled “Writing With Our Hands”. Working with RAMM and Stories Connect, the students transformed their anthology into a short story “Night at the Museum” which is...

RAMM shortlisted for dementia-friendly award

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) has reached the finals of the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia-Friendly Awards 2016.

The museum is one of three finalists in the Dementia Partnership of the Year in recognition of its work with Devon Partnership NHS Trust’s Franklyn Hospital.

The partnership has raised staff awareness and skill levels and generated new museum activities for people living with dementia.

The museum now offers dementia-friendly tours, behind-the-scenes visits to handle museum objects, and art activities for people with...

Devon band to support the Blockheads

Devon band CaveMouth will be the supporting The Blockheads at their concert at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Saturday 1 October.

The Blockheads, the band behind Ian Dury’s poetic lyrics, are famous for songs such as Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick (1981), What A Waste (1979), Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) (1979), and many others. Rarely off the road since the death of Ian Dury in 2000, and with Derek Hussey fronting the band, The Blockheads remain an English institution. Interest in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, the recent biopic of Ian Dury and the musical...

If you go down to the RAMM this month...

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Mon, 09/05/2016 - 2:56pm

From 17 September, visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will find some surprising and innovative sculptures. Centre-stage will be a single, massive, pulsating, inflatable sculpture inhabiting most of the gallery.

Artist Michael Shaw’s sculpture is original, dynamic and fun. In this exhibition, Michael Shaw: Sculpting the Museum, he responds to artefacts from RAMM’s collections using metals, plastics and natural materials, using laser cutting and rapid prototyping. His sculptures are displayed alongside the original artefacts as a 21st-century Cabinet of...

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