Early June at RAMM
* New exhibition - Flower Power: Botanical
illustrations from India
* Lunchtime lectures - The Bowden Lily and its Devon Connection
- In
the footsteps of Shackleton
* Out & About - Exeter
Respect Festival in Belmont Park
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RAMM’s wellbeing programme has
received recognition from Arts & Health South
West (AHSW). The programme welcomes people with dementia and carers, people
with mental health issues, and literacy students into the museum and RAMM is
one of only thirteen .....
23 May
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Wednesday
1 and Friday 3 Jun, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, free drop-in, suggested
donation £2
Short-and-sweet
activities themed on
plants and gardens.
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Thursday
2 June, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2 and 3pm, free drop-in, suggested donation £2
Experience
the new, all singing, all dancing, magical world of the Georgian Peepshow
featuring some of RAMM’s amazing magic lantern slides. Peep into another world
and pop out with a smile on your face...
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Wednesday
8 June, 2 to 2.50pm, £5
Take
a 50-minute tour behind the scenes to see some of the reserve collections and
find out more about the conservation, display and storage of objects. Restricted access for wheelchairs, call
01392 265984 before ...
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Friday
10 June, 1 to 2pm, £8 (£6).
The
Bowden lily (Nerine bowdenii) is widely grown and much valued across the UK. Dr John David, Head of Horticultural Taxonomy at the
Royal Horticultural Society, covers the story of its discovery and introduction
into cultivation. He also explains its status today, based on his recent trip
to South Africa...
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Friday
10 June, 2.15pm, ticketed but free
See
the 16 painted period cast lampposts in the St David’s and St James area of
Exeter each featuring a plant cultivated or discovered by the Veitch family with
Plant Heritage Devon Group and the Exeter Veitch Trail.
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Saturday
11 June, 12 noon to 7pm and Sunday 12 June, 11am to 6pm, free drop-in.
Belmont Park,
Exeter EX1 2DH
Come
and see us at the city’s annual celebration of cultural diversity. Two days of
free live music and performance in a friendly, alcohol-free atmosphere.
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Tue 14 June, 11am to 3pm, free, drop in
Explore and handle authentic and replica Second World War
objects in the Making History gallery...
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Tue 14 June, 11am to 3pm, free, drop in
With
photographs from 1914 and 2004, professional photographer Lucilla Phelps will
describe a journey to the places visited by Shackleton’s Endurance expedition:
the Antarctic Peninsula, Elephant Island, South Georgia and more. Her
photographs, taken ....
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23 Apr to 28 Aug, £4 (£2)
This exhibition showcases the top entries from the International Garden Photographer of the Year 2016. Now in its ninth year, this premier competition for garden and plant photography...
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11 June to 11 September, free
An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations
of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern
medicine.
In the late 18th and early
19th centuries the East India Company controlled...
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19 April to 3 July, free
A selling show of local artworks inspired by the city’s beauty and the spectacular surrounding countryside from one of Exeter’s foremost art groups. Using watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache and pencil the exhibition focuses upon landscapes and work with botanical themes....
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14 May to 2 July
Video artworks inspired by RAMM’s collections: A stone fragment from a Dominican Friary choir screen is removed from its case in RAMM and carried to the original priory site, now part of the Princesshay Shopping Centre...
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4 Apr to 27 Jun
This collector loves inkwells; after a trip to an antique shop where one caught her eye. She now has more than fifty. From a knight to a nautilus, they come in all sorts of shapes...
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Until January 2017
In Rod Dickinson’s Outlier Detection a 3D digital version of a decorative hand-painted 1830s police truncheon from RAMM's collection is animated by a stream of live data from www.legislation.co.uk
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