RAMM’s redevelopment project and its architects, Allies and Morrison, have received further acclaim, winning the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South West Regional Award 2013 last night. RAMM also won South West Building of the Year and the South West Conservation Award.
The RIBA Awards programme champions and celebrates the best of British architecture:
“This is a nationally important project, made all the remarkable when the full logistical story is explained (for example, only 0.01% of the museum archive is on display in RAMM). A&M’s attention to detail...
Objects from Exeter's William Morris collection are now on display in Museum of the Year 2013: The William Morris Art Gallery in London.
All 33 items in RAMM’s Wiiliam Morris collection have been transferred there and several of the objects are included in the permanent displays. The collection came from Iceland and was donated to RAMM in 1939 by Mary Frances Lobb, the lover of Morris’s daughter. The eclectic mix includes slippers, a bodice, a cap, a 16th-century bible and carved horn spoons and containers.
There are very few items of European origin in RAMM’s World...
The Fijian Art Research Project is helping RAMM learn more about its Fijian artefacts, identify objects that can be included in major European exhibitions of Fijian art and prepare for an exhibition at RAMM in July 2015.
The World Cultures collection currently includes 131 objects from Fiji of which 16 are included in the displays. The objects were donated mainly in the 19th century by those serving in either Royal Navy or the army, such as Lieut. George Phillpotts who was killed in New Zealand in 1845, Captain George Peard who served on the HMS Blossom in 1828 and, of course, the...
Singer-songwriter and museum patron Steve Knightley returns to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum on the evening of Thursday 20 June to sing songs from the English countryside.
The special solo performance will be a mix of his own and traditional folk songs: an evening of haunting music with powerful lyrics, inspired by the people and landscape of Steve’s native West Country.
Described by Mike Harding of BBC Radio 2 as “One of England’s greatest singer songwriters”, Steve Knightley is lead singer in nationally acclaimed folk band Show of Hands. The evening will be a...
This exhibition explores the life-giving potential of ‘discarded’ body parts and their relationship to myths, history, cutting edge stem cell research and notions of what constitutes informed consent.
The art works are sculptural, incorporating milk teeth donated by children and bones and fat from living, consenting donors.
Wasted is produced by Gina Czarnecki in collaboration with Professor Sara Rankin, Imperial College London. The body, its limits and unexplored possibilities for self-regeneration form the basis of a four year body of research culminating in this ground...
The Benyounes Quartet is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting young British ensembles. In June 2012, the quartet won 2nd prize at the 1st International Sandor Vegh String Quartet Competition in Budapest and they received four special prizes including Best Interpretation of a Bartok Quartet and Best Performance of the commissioned piece. They were also invited to perform at the new Liszt Academy and in the Budapest Spring Festival in 2013. In May 2012, the quartet reached the final of Young Classical Artist Trust, performing at the Wigmore Hall.
This exhibition features the printmaking of Gillian Ayres, one of the leading British abstract artists of her generation. As well as the vibrant, heavily-worked canvasses for which she is best known, Gillian is also a dedicated printmaker.
Born in 1930, Gillian Ayres studied at Camberwell College of Art between 1945 and 1950. She worked initially in London and then went on to teach at the Bath Academy in Corsham, Saint Martins School of Art and finally became Head of Painting at Winchester School of Art. She left teaching in 1981 and moved to Wales and then Cornwall, where she...
Thanks to the Friends of Exeter Museums & Art Gallery, paintings of Dartmoor in RAMM’s forthcoming Widgery exhibition will be displayed in beautifully gilded frames.
The frames are being conserved by a small team of conservators and conservation students in the RAMM Conservation Laboratories between 28 May and 3 June and their progress can be followed on storify, or on Twiitter #moorgold.
The exhibition Masters of the Moor: William & FJ Widgery, starts on 6 July. It will be the first exhibition at RAMM for many years to bring together a range of work by both father...
A grant from the Leverhulme Trust has enabled RAMM to review its Blackfoot collections with the active participation of representatives from Blackfoot Nations in Canada and the USA.
Co-ordinated by Dr Alison Brown of the Department of Anthropology in the University of Aberdeen, staff from RAMM and the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) will be linked with the Blackfoot Nations of Siksika, Piikani, Kainai and the Blackfeet.
A series of reciprocal research visits will improve identification, interpretation and care of the museum collections...
