Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM)

Penguin finds love at the RAMM

One of the penguins at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery stars in a new online video for Christmas.

Laurie, the lonely Little Blue penguin plays the central character in RAMM’s online Christmas greeting when he explores the Museum …but will he manage to find that special penguin to share his life with?

The Little Blue Penguin – sometimes known as the Fairy Penguin – is the smallest penguin species and originates in New Zealand. In the video, Laurie starts his museum quest with some prehistory, has a chat with one of the museum staff, finds his way to...

The Creation Station - Exeter & Mid Devon launches new six-week programme in conjunction with RAMM

Authored by erinblake
Posted: Sun, 01/05/2014 - 6:51am

The Creation Station Exeter & Mid Devon currently provides creative children's art and craft classes at various venues in and around Exeter. Their Little Explorer sessions for 1 – 5 year olds focus not on the end product, but on the journey of discovery the children experience whilst making their creations.

With the help of RAMM their journey of discovery is about to be expanded to a whole new level. Over six weeks The Creation Station will be looking at several of the collections held at RAMM, alongside Exeter’s youngest museum visitors. Together they will be exploring...

Meet the Artists: Four Southwest Wood Engravers at RAMM

Event Date: 
07/12/2013 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Enjoy the talents of Harry Brockway, Hilary Paynter, Pam Pebworth and Howard Phipps on Saturday 7th December at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.

The four local wood engravers will be meeting visitors of the museum at 2pm.

Visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will be able to enjoy a drink with the artists and get a 5% discount on all artists’ gallery sales when an exhibition opens on Saturday 7th December.

The exhibition - Awake Through Years: Four Southwest Wood Engravers, runs from 7 December to 23 March.

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Meet the Artists: Four Southwest Wood Engravers at RAMM

Visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will be able to enjoy a drink with the artists and get a 5% discount on all artists’ gallery sales when an exhibition opens on Saturday 7th December.

Awake Through Years: Four Southwest Wood Engravers runs from 7 December to 23 March. Four local wood engravers, Harry Brockway, Hilary Paynter, Pam Pebworth and Howard Phipps, will be meeting visitors in the gallery from 2pm on Saturday.

The engravers combine accuracy of observation with a totally modern sensibility. Their display highlights many of the different...

Local volunteer Hannah Fortune honoured with Safe & Well Volunteer of the Year Award

Devon Community Foundation hosted their annual Volunteer of the Year awards at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, honouring the hard work and achievements of the people contributing to voluntary and community groups in Devon. Local volunteer Hannah Fortune was recognised with the Safe & Well Volunteer of the Year Award, sponsored by the Mildmay-White Fund for her work with Devon Rape Crisis Service.

Hannah, 22, a former student at Exeter University, has been involved with Devon Rape Crisis Service since it began in 2011. As a volunteer support worker, she...