RAMM News, Events and Exhibitions - Late March

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Late March at RAMM

       - Food for thought: South West Coastal Landscape: the future?

       - Get ready for the school holidays: Courtyard Family Activities: Easter

       - Special RAMMmail offer: Save 15% on Wine Tasting events 

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Giving you a better website

RAMM is redesigning its website to make online visitor’s lives easier; the new responsive website will look good whether you use a desktop or a mobile devise (now used by 40% of online visitors). Visitor feedback has also contributed to changes in the structure and content. Schools information will move ....

15 March

Visitor using free wifi to leave comments on RAMM’s Collections Explorer while in the galleries

Local Art Show - flower pot with artist's brushes

Local Art Show – Your Choice

Voting has started. Throughout March, the Express & Echo is featuring work from the seven groups competing for the 2016Local Art Show and voting coupons are now available. All votes must be sent to the Express & Echo and received by noon on Thursday 31 March. See samples of their work ...

14 March


Exeter: Place in Time

Lead by experts from the University of Exeter, the latest technology will be applied to RAMM’s collections to reveal where the city’s food and ceramics came from during 1st to the 16th centuries...

04 March

Exeter: Place in Time

Events
Shep en mut

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Activities

Sat 19 Mar, 11am to 3pm. Drop in. £2.50

Come and learn about life and death in Ancient Egypt. Learn and help with a re-enactment of the mummification of Shep en-Mut.  Have a go at the addictive Ancient Egyptian game of Senet. Join the Scribe School and learn how to write in hieroglyphs...


Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Sat 19 Mar, 11.30am to 3pm. Drop in. £2.50

Performances by Exeter College dance and textiles students inspired by the varied weather that we experience in the South West...

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Dementia-friendly gallery tour

Dementia-friendly gallery tour: Whatever the Weather

Wed 23 Mar, 10.30am to 12.30pm, £15 (includes companion, free if first visit)

The tour will look at the exhibition Whatever the Weather, which reflects how storms have shaped our environment and our imagination. The tour starts with refreshments and a chat about springtime...


South West Coastal Landscape: the future?

Wed 23 Mar, 1 to 2pm, £6 (£4)

The Southwest has a dynamic landscape. How does the weather shape it? Alex Raeder, National Trust South West Conservation Manager will talk about how the National Trust and partners aim to make a space for nature and people into the future...

South West Coastal Landscape: the future?

Second World War Handling Sessions

Second World War Handling Sessions

Tue 29 Mar, 11am to 3pm, free, drop in

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


First World War: Our War too

Tue 29 Mar, 11am to 2pm, Free

Discover and share African and Asian stories of the Western Front. Researchers from multi-ethnic community group Hikmat mark the 100-year anniversary by shining a light on the involvement and sacrifices of African and Asian communities...

First World War: Our War too

Child enjoying creative session

Little Explorers: Easter

Tue 29 Mar, 10.30 to 11.30am, £6 per child £3 siblings

A chance for under fives to take a journey of discovery and make collections-inspired creations. Parents, grandparents and carers can enjoy quality time with their little ones in a friendly, social environment...


Courtyard Family Activities: Easter

Wed 30 & Thu 31 Mar, Fri 1 Apr, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm. Drop in. Donation of £2 encouraged

Come and discover our famous bee bags, explorer bags and brain-teaser quizzes. There will be short-and-sweet activities which will change across the holiday, including make-a-mosaic, fuzz-and-felt museum, and costumes to try on...

Courtyard Family Activities: Easter

Couples at a 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
Devon weather

Whatever the Weather

21 November 2015 to 10 April 2016

RAMM’s major winter exhibition explores a theme which affects all our lives: the weather. Or more accurately, how weather seems to be constantly changeable, occasionally extreme and always unpredictable...


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...

The Golden Vale, John Clayton Adams, 1895

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams

5 January to 27 March

Heather Coleman's local collection of clay tobacco pipes is from the 16th to 20th centuries and includes examples from England, Scotland, The Netherlands and France...


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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