Highlights
Lucy Kemp-Welch’s monumental painting In Sight! Lord Dundonald’s Dash on Ladysmith will feature in the December exhibition of women artists. This was made possible by the successful public campaign to fund desperately needed conservation work.
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Families and children can join the all-new Summer Explorers this holiday and discover a brand new way to have fun in the museum. How do children become a Summer Explorer? It’s simple! All a child needs to do to join the Summer Explorers is pick up one of RAMM’s Summer Explorer leaflets and .....
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Discover a selection of Devon Museums’ collections. Devon Museum Group have joined South West Collections Explorer. The first collections come from the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, Topsham Museum and Torquay Museum.
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Thu 2 Aug - Roman Devon, 11.30am & 2pm, £2.50
Sat 4 Aug - Ancient Egypt, 12noon & 2pm, £2.50
Tue 7 Aug - World Cultures, 11am & 2pm, £2.50
Wed 8 Aug – Behind the Scenes, 2pm, £5
Tue 14 Aug - Local History, 11am, £5
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Tues 7, 14, 21, 28 Aug, 10.30 to 11.30am, £6 (siblings £4)
Art and craft activities inspired by RAMM's collections. Parents, grandparents and carers can enjoy quality time with their little ones in a friendly environment. For under 5s and their families. To book T: 07817 955 997, E: kathoward@thecreationstation.co.uk
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Few tickets remaining
Mon 17 Sep. Bar 6.30. Talk 7 to 8pm, early bird £16
Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives were transformed during World War One. With a generation of men heading off to fight, Kate will bring to light how women emerged from the shadows ....
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 A date for the diary
Thu 22 Nov, £16 earlybird, 7pm
Christina Lamb OBE is one of Britain's best-known foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. As Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times, she travels everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. She has won 14 major awards including ‘Foreign Correspondent of the Year’ 5 times and Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux.
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12 May to 26 Aug
£4.50, £3.50, Art Fund £2.50, under 19s free
Vibrant, sexy and very much of the moment, Pop Art reflected a fascination with the iconic status of celebrities and brands. See works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Patrick Caulfield and Richard Hamilton, as well as contemporary artists whose work is strongly influenced by the Pop Art phenomenon, such as Gavin Turk, Julian Opie and Damien Hirst.
Organised
by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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8 May to 25 Nov
Child iconography from the 17th to the 20th Century. Before the Enlightenment, children in art appeared as miniature adults. Includes Age of Innocence by Joshua Reynolds, on loan from Plymouth City Museum.
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20 Apr to 2 Sep
Children’s book illustrator Victoria Byron has created a new book especially for RAMM’s 150th anniversary. Alfie is a sparrow who sits amongst the other birds in the gallery. One night, when the visitors have all left, something magical happens: the museum comes alive and Alfie goes exploring.
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Tue 17 July to April 2019
Internationally-acclaimed artist, sculptor, writer and film-maker Bedwyr Williams brings his surreal sense of humour to bear on RAMM's Queen Street foyer. After decades of being examined in glass showcases, the objects will have a chance to get their own back by studying the visitors.
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10 Jul to 30 Sep
Sharing the passions of local collectors: Selected from 3,500 vinyl records to accompany the Pop Art in Print exhibition, the collector is showcasing some record sleeve artworks inspired by the Pop Art movement.
Display your collection: E ramm@exeter.gov.uk.
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3 July to 7 October
Cafe display - see the museum from a different. Press and portrait photographer Jim Wileman has taken a look behind the scenes to capture some of the museum moments that members of the public don’t normally see.
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April to June 2018
Many events sell out quickly. View the full programme of exhibitions and events in RAMM's latest quarterly leaflet and ensure that you get tickets you want.
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