Winner of the Taste of the West Gold Award for Cafe-Restaurant 2012, Otterton Mill, will be providing visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) with a new menu of light meals and refreshments from Friday 30 November.
"We are delighted to have been offered this opportunity to run the RAMM Cafe" said Simon Spiller who runs Otterton Mill with wife Caroline. "As café owners, we feel lucky to operate in Devon. We are surrounded by great ingredients, wonderful growers and hard working farmers & fishermen. Our idea and ethos is to celebrate these ingredients and our...
Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old pottery beaker during excavations ahead of the construction of the new town at Cranbrook near Exeter. The pot is remarkably complete with only a tiny portion of the rim missing. It was discovered buried in a pit about 2 metres deep along with a stone bracer, an arm guard worn by archers to protect their forearms when shooting. The bracer was made from stone sourced in Langdale in Cumbria.
By looking at the pot under the microscope Roger Taylor, RAMM’s geologist, was able to identify the inclusions in the clay. He concluded...
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum will join Devon’s other leading tourism businesses at this year’s Devon Tourism Awards. RAMM is poised to receive either a Gold, Silver, Bronze or Commended Award in the Visitor Attraction category.
Devon Tourism Partnership has announced the 37 finalists, the cream of the Devon tourism industry, for 12 award categories. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 22 November at the Saunton Sands Hotel in North Devon, hosted by BBC Radio Devon’s Judy Spiers. The best business will then be selected for the coveted Winner...
His Royal Highness the Earl of Wessex was today taken on a whistlestop tour of Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), which was recently named Museum of the Year by the Art Fund and gained its 300,000th visitor last Friday. After arriving at 11am, the Earl was welcomed to the Museum by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Rob Newby, Leader of the City Council, Cllr Pete Edwards, and Chief Executive Philip Bostock and introduced to chief patron Michael Morpurgo and patrons Show of Hands.
The Earl was then walked around the Queen Street building by the Museum Manager, Camilla...
A Symphony of Curves is a rare opportunity to see the art of the architectural sculptor at close quarters and learn about the development of the craft of plasterwork over four centuries.
Geoffrey Preston is one of the UK’s most highly-regarded architectural sculptors. He specialises in decorative plasterwork and has created award-winning work for buildings all over the country from his workshop in Exeter.
The exhibition includes beautiful decorative plaster panels together with design drawings and photographs of some of his principal commissions. The centrepiece of...
RAMM’s geologist is helping research a stone axe hammer found in Lydford in the 1960s. Its finder recently brought the axe to the Devon Finds Liaison Officer for identification.
She turned to RAMM to help examine the stone to determine where it came from and to formally record it with the South West Museums Implement Petrology Group.
Axe hammers are quite rare; only about sixteen have been recorded from Devon and Cornwall, and curiously most are not of local rock. They are rarely found in an archaeological context so that their age and use remains uncertain. They may date...
Celebrating the spirit of adventure and enterprise of South West people, this landmark exhibition explores the West Country in the age of the Tudors. Comprising loans from the Bodleian Library, British Library, BritishMuseum, National Portrait Gallery, National Trust, Royal Collection, Royal Museums Greenwich, Victoria & AlbertMuseum and private lenders, it will present a compelling account of the remarkable contributions of individuals from the South West from 1540 to 1620.
During the Elizabethan ‘Golden Age’ West Country folk were famed for their innovation and endeavour....
RAMM is celebrating National Volunteering Week with a selection of its volunteer-led activities for all the family. Volunteers at RAMM today are sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for RAMM and its collections. Visitors can join one of the spotlight tours featuring different aspects of the displays, handle a range of artefacts, try on costumes or take part in family activities.
Sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm: RAMM has around 120 volunteers who support the museum in many ways across all departments. If you are interested in volunteering with RAMM, email ramm.volunteer@...
