RAMM News, Events and Exhibitions - Late April

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Late April at RAMM

- Rathbones Spring Concert Series: Martin Roscoe, Piano

- Living Each Season: Dementia-friendly object-handling

- Naturally Inspired: International Garden Photographer of the Year

 

News

RAMM: Naturally Inspired

Botanicals, gardens and landscapes are the inspiration for a season of exhibitions and events at RAMM. The Naturally Inspired season includes award-winning photography, botanical watercolours...

8 April

Naturally Inspired: A season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes at RAMM

Members of the winning Flying Colours art group

Local Art Show Winner

Express & Echo readers have voted Teignmouth-based art group Flying Colours winner of the 2016 Local Art Show. This year’s show has a botanical theme and how that has been interpreted by the group’s members can be seen in RAMM’s Gallery 22 from Saturday 30 April to Sunday 29 May...

7 April


Events
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds

The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds

Thu 21 Apr, 1.10pm to 2.15pm, £6

Taking its lead from William Morris and promoted by the efforts of Charles Robert Ashbee, the Arts and Crafts Movement flourished in The Cotswolds area from 1885 to 1935...

 


Dementia-friendly object-handling

Fri 22 Apr, 10.30am to 12.30pm, £15 (including companion)

A spring theme: the first cuckoo. Touch and talk about objects reflecting the magic of the new season, from pale blue eggs to the first cuckoo, from migrating butterflies to painted spring landscapes...

 

Dementia-friendly object-handling

Behind the Scenes Tour: More in Store

Behind the Scenes Tour: More in Store

Sat 23 Apr, 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...


Second World War Handling Sessions

Tue 26 Apr, 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

Gallery tour: The Inside Story

Gallery tour: The Inside Story

Tue 26 Apr, 1 to 2pm, £10 (£8)

Philip Smith, founder of the International Garden Photographer of the Year, will introduce the competition...


Martin Roscoe, Piano

Wed 27 Apr, 6.30 for 7.30pm start. Drinks £2 donation. £20 (£18)

Series ticket £55 (£50) for 3

Patrons 2 for the price of 1

The Rathbones Spring Concert Series 2016 opens with a recital by Martin Roscoe, one of our most distinguished and popular pianists...

Martin Roscoe, Piano

A Museum Garden

Toby Buckland’s Museum Garden

From 28 Apr

As part of the Naturally Inspired season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes, writer and broadcaster Toby Buckland will be installing a lush garden into the museum. In the Garden Reception there will be a brightly coloured .......


Inspired by Stone: Stone carving course

Thus 28 Apr to 26 May, 10am to 1pm, £80 (£40)

An initial inspiration day using RAMM’s building and collections to kick-start a short stone carving course for beginners. Led by expert Maria Moorhouse, with Roger Taylor, RAMM’s geology expert...

 

An initial inspiration day using RAMM’s building and collections to kick-start a short stone carving course for beginners. Led by expert Maria Moorhou

Toby's Garden Fest

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival

Fri 29 and Sat 30 Apr, 10am to 5pm, £6, children free. Powderham Castle, Kenton, Exeter EX6 8JQ

Look out for the museum stand at this year’s festival, promoting RAMM’s Naturally Inspired season of exhibitions and activities. RAMM’s Curator of Ethnography is also featured in the Kitchen Cutting ...

Tickets from www.tobygardenfest.co.uk


Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Activities

Sat 30 Apr, 11am to 3pm. Drop in. £3

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...

Shep en mut

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Sat 30 Apr, 11.30am to 3pm. Drop in. Ticketed but free.

Join one of our 30-minute tours of our Egyptian Collection. Learn about the background to the collection and visit the Tomb of Shep en-Mut...


Exhibitons

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...

International Garden Photographer of the Year

Arum lilies by Charmain Hebbard

Flying Colours - Local Art Show winner

30 Apr to 29 May

Express & Echo readers have voted Teignmouth-based art group Flying Colours winner of the 2016 Local Art Show. This year’s show has a botanical theme and how that has been interpreted by the group’s members can be seen in ...


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

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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