RAMM News, Events and Exhibitions - Late June

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Late June at RAMM

      

      * Dementia Friendly  - International Garden Photographer of the Year Gallery Tour

      * Guided Tours - Life and Death in Ancient Egypt

      * Rathbones Spring Concert Series - Barbican Quartet replace Eeden Quartet

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Friends Support Naturally Inspired

RAMM’s Friends have added 34 botanical watercolours to the museum’s collections. The paintings are all preliminary plates by local naturalist Rev. William Keble Martin for his best-selling publication: The Concise British Flora in Colour. .....

2 June

Friends chairman Alan Caig inspecting the newly acquired watercolours with RAMM’s Collections Officer Holly Morgenroth

Events
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Dementia-Friendly Gallery Tour

Wednesday 22 June, 10.30am to 12.30pm, £15 (including companion).

The International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition captures amazing moments in nature, from close up and far away...

Concessions available.


Museum Full Site Tour

Thursday 23 June, 2 to 3pm, £5

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

 

Museum Full Site Tour

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Tours

Saturday 25 June, 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. Tours leave every 30 minutes from the ground floor geology corridor...


Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Activities

Saturday 25 June, 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...

Shep en mut

The award-winning Barbican Quartet

The Barbican Quartet

Wednesday 29 June, 6.30 for 7.30pm start. Drinks £2 donation. £20 (£18)

The final concert in the Rathbones Spring Concert Series 2016. New award-winning quartet replacing the Eeden Quartet due to injury.

New programme: Haydn - Quartet Op.76 No.1, Beethoven - Quartet Op.18 No.1, Ravel - Quartet in F


Virtuous Herbes at RAMM

Thursday 30 June, 11 to 11.45am and 1 to 1.45pm, free, drop in

Plants have been used for healing in many cultures throughout history. Step back to Tudor England... The year is 1602 and Tudor wives Mistress Elinor and Mistress Christina demonstrate the preparation of infusions, tisanes, poultices and .....

Hands picking petals from medicinal flowers

Exhibitons
International Garden Photographer of the Year

International Garden Photographer of the Year

23 April to 28 August, £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...


Flower Power

11 June to 11 September, free

An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled...

Indian botanical drawings

Portion of painting by Hubert von Herkomer (1849 to 1914): The Trysting Place.

Exeter's Fine Art

21 June to 20 Octobe, free

Drawings, watercolours and oil paintings from RAMM’s collection on the themes of summer and autumn, as well as Devon Landscapes, Exeter and People.

Three recently-acquired botanical watercolours by Rev Keble Martin, 18th-century watercolours by John White Abbott and more recent works by ...


Cafe Exhibition: Exeter Art Society

19 April to 3 July, free

A selling show of local artworks inspired by the city’s beauty and the spectacular surrounding countryside from one of Exeter’s foremost art groups. Using watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache and pencil the exhibition focuses upon landscapes and work with botanical themes....

Cafe Exhibition Exeter Art Society - Yellow Tulips

Sean Lynch: Weight of the World

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...


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...

What Do You Collect

Outlier Detection by Rod Dickinson

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


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