RAMM News, Events and Exhibitions - Early March

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Japanese film and exhibition mock-up

Japanese Film Offer

Buy a full-price ticket at RAMM's Hiroshige exhibition receive £1 off any of the six films in the Exeter Phoenix’s March Japan Foundation Film programme or present your Japan film ticket at RAMM and receive £1 off entry to Hiroshige's Japan.

27 February


Exeter Living Awards

RAMM is a finalist in two categories of the 2017 Exeter Living Awards: the Arts and Leisure & Tourism categories.

The full list of finalists is available on the Exeter Living Awards website.

23 February

Finalist Exeter Living Awards 2017 logo

events
Hiroshige print

Talk: Hiroshige’s Japan

Wednesday 1 March, SOLD OUT.

Dr Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean Museum, introduces the great Japanese woodblock print designer Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) and his ground breaking series. Organised in association with Art Fund Devon Fundraising Committee.


Explore Roman Devon

Thursdays 2 and 16 March

Handling Sessions - 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, free, drop in

Handle authentic and replica Roman objects and coins.

Tours - 11.30am and 2pm, free but ticketed

Join a 30-minute tour to learn about life in Roman Devon.

Roman coin

A Melanesian skull

RAMM’s Melanesian Skulls

Tuesday 7 March, 1 to 2pm, £8 (£6)

Researcher Kristen Leith and RAMM’s Curator of Ethnography Tony Eccles discuss research into three Melanesian ancestor skulls were donated to RAMM's Pacific collection, only to spend most of the last 80 years in storage...


Victorian lace

Fashionable Victorians

Thursday 9 March, 1.10 to 2.15pm, SOLD OUT

Shopping for clothes in Victorian Exeter with Shelley Tobin, curator of textiles at RAMM. Find out how people shopped for clothes in the 19th century with surviving examples made and sold by Exeter dressmakers, milliners and retailers. By ....


Frances Spalding CBE FRSL

John Piper’s Vision

Tuesday 14 March, 7 to 8pm, £15 (£12)

British Art Historian and Editor of the Burlington Magazine Frances Spalding CBE FRSL, discusses how the dialogue between Piper’s passionate interest in the past and his commitment to the modern is at the heart of his achievement.


Hiroshige print

Dementia-friendly gallery tour

Thursday 16 March, 10.30am to 12.30pm, £15 (including companion)

A friendly, relaxed tour of these landscape prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), visiting from the Ashmolean Museum. Part of RAMM’s Living Each Season dementia-friendly programme, activities are suitable for people with mild to moderate memory problems, accompanied by


Hiroshige print

The 3 Cs of Mindfulness

Saturday 18 March, 10.30am to 4pm, £55

Explore the ‘Contact, Curiosity and Care’ as a means to create greater depths of awareness to what we see, hear, smell, touch and sense. Discover how to use the museum as a wellbeing space and enhance your understanding of art with tutor Aspasia Leledaki.


exhibitions
Painting of Queen Victoria's entry into Paris

Queen Victoria in Paris

To 23 April

Forty four watercolours from the Royal Collection depicting Queen Victoria’s remarkable visit to Paris in 1855. The historic 10-day visit was on the invitation of the Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie. The first time a reigning British ......


Hiroshige’s Japan: Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

To 16 April 2017, £4 (£2) under 19s free

A selection of Japanese woodblock prints from the series that made Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) one of the best known of all Japanese artists. His landscape prints are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art and were hugely successful both in Japan and in the West.


Painting of man skating

Winter and Spring

To 31 May

This exhibition features a selection of drawings, watercolours and oil paintings from RAMM’s collection with a seasonal themes, as well as Devon Landscapes, Exeter and People. Devon Landscapes include 18th-century watercolours by ......