RAMM News, Events and Exhibitions - Early May

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Early May at RAMM

- Literary delight: Kevin Crossley-Holland in conversation with Lawrence Sail

- Breaking news: Who Sank the Mary Rose, 1545?

- Naturally Inspired: International Garden Photographer of the Year

News

Win Tea with Toby

Become a Plant Hunter, find ‘plants in strange places’ and share photographs of your discoveries on Instagram or Tumblr for a chance to win tea and a chat with gardener, writer and broadcaster Toby Buckland. As part of the Naturally Inspired season of ...

28 April

Gardener, writer and broadcaster Toby Buckland photographing unusual plants

Events
My Favourite Things

My Favourite Things

Sat 7 and Sun 8 May, 10am to 5pm, free drop-in

This film about students’ favourite museum objects made by Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education in partnership with RAMM will be shown as part of Deaf Awareness Week...

 


Second World War Handling Sessions

Tue 10 May, 11am to 3pm, free, drop in

Explore and handle authentic and replica Second World War objects in the Making History gallery...

Second World War Handling Sessions

Fine Art Gallery Conservation

Fine Art Gallery Conversation

Wed 11 May, 1 to 2pm, £10 (£8)

Find out about the current exhibition selected from RAMM’s art collections, including images from the romantic peaks of Snowdonia to Mol’s Coffee shop in Exeter...

 


Kevin Crossley-Holland in conversation with Lawrence Sail

Wed 11 May, 6 for 7 to 8.30pm

Internationally acclaimed and prize-winning children’s author and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland will be discussing his writing life with Exeter-based poet Lawrence Sail...

Crossley-Holland and Lawrence Sail

Who sank the Mary Rose

Who Sank the Mary Rose, 1545?

Thu 12 May, 6.30pm to 7.45pm, (£8.50)

Dr Peter Marsden will discuss who was responsible for the sinking of Henry VIII’s great ship. He will refer both to historic documents and to material remains like the skeletons of the crew and aspects of the ship’s structure. Dr Marsden was formerly an archaeologist with the Museum of London...


Museum Full Site Tour

Sat 14 May, 11am to 12noon, £5

Join a 60-minute tour of the archaeology, natural history and world cultures displays...

 

Museum Full Site Tour

Couples enjoying Laithwaites Wine Tasting

Save 15% on Wine Tasting Tickets

Sat 14 May, 1.30 to 3.30pm and 6.30 to 8.30pm

Big reds, crisp whites – we’ve got it all! Join Laithwaite’s Wine (Wine Merchant of the Year 2015) for a delicious wine tasting. Use voucher code EXETER15 when prompted for your 15% RAMMmail subscriber discount off tickets.


Exhibitons
International Garden Photographer of the Year

International Garden Photographer of the Year

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...


Express & Echo Local Art Show 2016

30 April to 29 May, free

Teignmouth-based art group Flying Colours is the winner of the 2016 Express & Echo Local Art Show. This year’s show has a botanical theme and is part of Naturally Inspired, a season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes at the museum....

Arum lilies by Flying Colours artist Charmain Hebbard

The Golden Vale, John Clayton Adams, 1895

RAMM's Fine Art Collection

24 October 2015 to 8 May 2016

City landmarks, British landscapes and a spotlight on Cecil Collins: an English visionary who drew inspiration from the prophecies of William Blake and Far Eastern philosophy...


Sean Lynch: The Weight of the World

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......

Leading Irish artist Sean Lynch holding a bronze axe head in RAMM's mMaking History gallery

What do you Collect? The Ink Keeper

What do you Collect? The Ink Keeper

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...


Outlier Detection by Rod Dickinson

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

Outlier Detection by Rod Dickinson

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