The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM)’s new Youth Panel café exhibition opens Tuesday 27 February.
Following the success of last year’s Youth Panel exhibition Picked and Pressed: The Appeal of Edible Plants, the newly developed Data-day life exhibition explores how data from our daily lives can be creatively expressed in engaging and innovative ways across twelve individually designed banners.
Visitors to the Exeter City Council museum will be able to see the creative presentation of a wide variety of data sets collected from the routines of Youth Panel...
An exciting collaboration between an Exeter museum and University is helping to ensure the museum’s incredible collections are available for use by everyone.
The partnership between the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) and the GLAM-E Lab at the University of Exeter, will help spread awareness of incredible artworks and ensure the public can use them for free and without permission.
For the past year, RAMM staff have been working with the GLAM-E Lab and Exeter Law School students to make their collections open access for all.
Unseasonably wet weather has helped one of the South West’s attractions pull in its highest number of visitors since the covid pandemic.
More than 2,100 people visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) last Wednesday (2 August).
It wasn’t the first rainy day of the school holidays but the dry conditions and warm welcome from staff at RAMM, certainly proved a hit. The museum and its permanent collections is free for all visitors to explore, although there is a charge for some exhibitions throughout the year.
Members of the public can learn about the history and science behind the life-changing Exeter Hip in a talk at Exeter’s largest museum.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will play host to people interested in learning about the Exeter Hip which has transformed the lives of millions of people for over half a century. The talk will take place on December 6, between 6.30 and 8.30pm.
NHS surgeon Professor Robin Ling and Dr Clive Lee, an Engineer at the University of Exeter designed the revolutionary Exeter Hip in 1969, improving on a major problem of previous hip...
Chief Ouray Crowfoot and a delegation from the Siksika Nation in Canada will take possession of sacred regalia in a handover event in Exeter on 19 May 2022.
The regalia and other belongings which has been housed in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter since 1878, include a buckskin shirt, pair of leggings, a knife with feather bundle, two beaded bags and a horsewhip. These objects once belonged to Chief Crowfoot, an important late nineteenth-century Blackfoot leader.
Following a blessing at the museum, the regalia will be packed and returned to...
Exeter School of Art student Sophie Bruce and her team have created what is believed to be the only exhibition celebrating the history of the Apple Mac in the UK.
The Mac Museum exhibit opened last week at the college’s new Institute of Technology Digital and Data Centre (IoT) and will be on display throughout the summer.
Sophie said “The Mac Museum is a concept that was originally by my tutor Mike Krage. I got given the project last year, he asked me if I wanted to do it and I said absolutely. It was during the peak of lockdown.” She had originally gone with a modern...
Exeter City Council has secured a landmark ruling over the rateable valuation of the city’s Grade II listed Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM).
The decision will have a significant impact on the way many English and Welsh museums are valued in the future, especially those in similar listed buildings with high operating costs.
The case was brought by the Valuation Office as an appeal against a decision made by the Valuation Tribunal for England in August 2018, which set the rateable value of RAMM at £1 from April 2015.
LGBTQ+ heritage embedded in the rich collections at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) will be revealed and celebrated as part of a major new collaboration, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer history can be found in the museum’s collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, and local and overseas archaeology, but it is not visible at the moment.
During an 18-month project, curators and engagement specialists at RAMM will work together with Dr Jana Funke from the University...
A Chinese gown, a giraffe and a collection of pocket watches are amongst the museum objects that have inspired the composers of new music which will be performed in the galleries at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. The performance is part of the international Festival of Contemporary Music for All. Thirteen new pieces of music have been specially commissioned by the Devon Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO), whose players and singers will perform in small ensembles around the museum. The audience will walk through the galleries, choosing their route, and stopping to listen to the...
Circle of Spears Productions are bring their acclaimed play WITCH to Torbay for the first time. Based on original witness evidence from a 1687 Dorset witch trial, WITCH examines the perils of being a woman alone in the early modern era. It's an emotive piece about witchcraft trials which contains neither a trial nor any witchcraft - instead it looks at the interpersonal relationships of those involved and focuses on the human story behind such accusations. The case is examined purely from a social history perspective to highlight how easily an accusation of witchcraft could arise against...
