Late February at RAMM
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- Half-term activities: Met Office Activity Zone
- Early evening talk: Bringing back the Clangers
- Out and about: Ranger Walk at Wembury
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New information about RAMM’s Pacific
collections is being incorporated new displays in the World Cultures gallery. The importance of objects acquired from
the earliest historic voyages contributed towards RAMM’s Ethnographic
collection being officially designated ....
11 Feb
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A pioneering partnership with the University of Exeter will see the
principles behind video games used to expand what RAMM’s visitors can
learn and see...
04 Feb
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Sat 13 February, 10am to 4pm. Drop in. Children
£3, adults free
From mystery skeletons and meet-the-experts to
creating a skyscape of birds and playing the game of Frankinsect! A Wild Day In
is a great way to get closer to some of Devon’s birds, find out more about
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Sat 13 Feb, 7 pm for 8pm start, 11pm finish, £10
Live music, theatre and more. Six piece band, The Zen Hussie,s will play live, dance
lessons with The South West Lindy Hoppers, Nuts and Volts theatre company, Vintage
DJs, Click Snicket Vintage Photobooth and a vintage dressing up theme....
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Tue 16 Feb, 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...
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Wed 17 Feb, 2 to 2.50pm, £5 - SORRY SOLD OUT
Take a 50-minute behind the scenes tour. See some of the reserve collections and find out more about the museum conserves, displays and stores objects...
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Wed 17 & Thu 18 Feb, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm. Donation of £1 encouraged
Get hands-on with some fun weather and climate experiments, including cloud-in-a-bottle and climate roulette, or chat to Met Office volunteers...
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Fri 19 Feb, 10am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 4pm. £5 per child per session (am or pm) - SORRY SOLD OUT
Museum adventures with the Clangers: help create a short animated film featuring the famous family of knitted mouse-like creatures...
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Fri 19 Feb and Fri 8 Apr, 11am to 1pm. Free tickets online
A walk round the headland to Wembury Point. Take in the views across to the Mewstone with Lorna Sherriff, National Trust Ranger for the South Devon...
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Fri 19 Feb, 6.30 to 7.30pm, £6 (£4)
When it was announced that Clangers was returning to our TV screens, there was intrigue, nostalgia and a great deal of scepticism from people who hold the original close to their hearts...
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Sat 20 Feb, 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...
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Tue 23 Feb, 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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Wed 24 Feb, 1pm to 2pm, £6 (£4)
Meet Emma Jones, National Trust, South West Curator, to hear about why objects can have a huge effect on our emotions, where they come from and their connection with the weather.
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25 Feb, 10:30am to 12:30pm, £15 per couple, first session free, transport costs available. Book in advance
Everyone will have the chance to take part in a hands-on creative activity inspired by museum objects and the theme of Winter...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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