Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) has been acclaimed one of the country’s best museums in an award ceremony held in London today (Thursday 24 September).
RAMM was one of only six museums shortlisted from over 800 nominations for the 2015 Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award, the third time that the museum has gained recognition as one of the country’s most family friendly museums.
Cllr Rosie Denham, Lead Councillor for Economy and Culture, said: “We are delighted to again be recognised as one of Britain’s most family friendly museums. RAMM aims to be friendly...
Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union team are staying in Exeter for Rugby World Cup 2015.
On Tuesday 22 September, they visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) with their families. Accompanied by the Cllr Lesley Robson the Deputy Lord Mayor and the city mace bearer, they visited Exeter quay, enjoyed tea on the Cathedral Green and visited the museum.
Welcomed by the Museum Manager Camilla Hampshire and Curator of Ethnography Tony Eccles, their tour of the museum included RAMM’s Oceania displays in the World Cultures galleries, Touch-Line, the exhibition of...
Someone somewhere in the city next month is going to have a monopoly - on Exeter MONOPOLY. That's because they will get their hands on the very first board in the city. The game officially launches at 10am in the heart of the Cathedral city at a venue to be announced. It is to be a public event and the whole city is being invited to the launch! But before then one person is going to get their hands on the much-anticipated official board. They will be presented with it by Mr MONOPOLY, the board’s moustached (and costumed) icon, at 9am on October 14th -Exeter MONOPOLY launch date – and it...
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) is inviting everyone to join in the city’s Rugby World Cup celebrations and share their photos online at www.engageproject.co.uk .
It’s not just about the match and it’s not just hard-core Rugby fans that can take part. With six themed albums that revellers can add to, everyone’s celebratory photos have a place to go: Watching the Match; It’s a Fan Thing; Match Food; Hope; Winning and Losing and Unite. Coordinator Kate Green, community artist & photographer, said “The media will show the matches and the players. I want us to add some...
Scrutiny of objects collected at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) during the First World War period has revealed a grim reminder of one the horrors of the First World War: the gas attacks which caused over a million casualties.
In 1919 RAMM was given a collection of German military equipment gathered by the British War Trophies Commission after the Armistice. Among the items is a gas mask worn by a German soldier in the trenches.
The mask covered the soldier’s eyes and mouth to limit injury by chemical gas, but the rest of the head remained...
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Tickets are available online or from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum reception in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
All tours of RAMM’s galleries are available for private group bookings on mutually agreed dates. One-hour volunteer presentations are available for groups and society: RAMM or St Nicholas Priory (minimum donation of £40 to the RAMM Development Trust) or the 22,...
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Devon-based artist Alan Cotton starts at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) on 17 September.
Alan Cotton is one of Britain’s most distinguished landscape painters, whose work is held in public and private collections worldwide. His distinctive paintings are laid onto canvas with painting knives using rich impasto pigments.
In 2006, The University of Exeter awarded Alan an Honorary Doctorate for his ‘outstanding contribution to the Arts’ and in 2011 he was appointed Honorary Professor for the Arts at the...
One hundred and forty years after samples from one of the world’s greatest journeys of scientific discovery were dispersed to experts across the globe, Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum is collecting records of the voyage into a single digital database.
The information is still an important source of baseline data and will soon be readily available for further research.
In 1872 chemists, physicists and biologists boarded the HMS Challenger and embarked upon a 70,000 nautical mile journey of global exploration, systematically surveying the geology, topography, biology...
This month visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum can see the city’s new currency before its launch in September, enjoy a wide selection of family activities; choose from a range of tours and see five exhibitions.
EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tour Saturday 1 August, 11.30am to 3pm, £2.50, drop in Join one of our 30-minute time ticketed tours of our Egyptian Collection. Learn about the background to the collection and visit the Tomb of Shep en-Mut. Tours leave every 30 minutes from the ground floor geology corridor. Each tour is limited...
Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum has been shortlisted for the Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award
RAMM is one of only six museums to be shortlisted for this year's award – the biggest museum award in Britain.
The competition has been tough with a record-breaking 800 nominations this year. The six finalists have been chosen by a panel of experts. Visitors, staff, volunteers and city councillors all contributed to RAMM’s nomination. Now it’s up to a ‘mystery shopper’ family to road-test RAMM and judge whether it should be the overall winner.
