The Tannery - Paul Glendell
End 23 June
RAMM Gallery 22
Glendell's photographs portray the people and processes involved in the ancient craft of oak bark tannery, conveying the spirit of the place, the qualities of light and the sense of movement.
Accompanying event
Wednesday 15 May, 1 to 2pm, tickets £4.50 (£3) - Lunchtime Lecture: Human Nature with Paul Glendell
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Drop-in Family Activities: Head on!
Wednesday 3 April & Thursday 4 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm, 1.30 to 3.30pm, £2 per child, drop in.
RAMM Courtyard
Make portraits using a variety of techniques and materials. Try silhouettes, paper plate portraits and 3D egg heads. Devise hats to change your image.*
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Drop-in Family Activities: Wacky Wildlife
Friday 5 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, £2 per child, drop in.
RAMM Courtyard
Create 3D models of some of RAMM's wildlife - anything from fierce tigers to awesome insects and beautiful birds.*
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Become a Tudor Portrait
Friday 5 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, admission charged
St Nicholas Priory, The Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL
Try on Tudor-style costume and be sure someone takes your photograph or sketches you.*
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Exeter's Fine Art
6 April to 24 November
RAMM Gallery 5
Paintings by Charles Ginner, Robert Bevan and Samuel Palmer.The images in this exhibition are available to buy on a range of products. Visit our prints website: www.prints.rammuseum.org.uk
Accompanying events
•Wednesday 8 May, 1 to 2pm, £4.50 (£3) - Lunchtime art gallery walk and talk with John Madin, RAMM's Art Curator
•Wednesday 5 June, 1 to 2pm, £4.50 (£3) - Lunchtime lecture - Benjamin Robert Haydon: The Triumphs and the Tragedies with Alan Read, lecturer for NADFAS.
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Children's Holiday Workshops: Them and Us
Wednesday 10 April, £15 per child.
RAMM Meeting rooms A and B
Who were the Britons and the Romans? Try on the clothing of Britons and Romans. Explore their different foods and social lives. Make some British artefacts and some Roman ones using clay and other materials.*
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Children's Holiday Workshops: The Furthest Shore
Thursday 11 April, £15 per child.
RAMM Meeting rooms A and B
Explore the Roman interest in Britain and how they left their mark on the country. Ask a Roman military engineer how he planned roads and camps and what tools he used. Make a bath house, a road or a mosaic.*
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Chat about the Birds
Thursday 11 April, 11am to 3pm, free drop-in
RAMM In Fine Feather Gallery
Find out more about our feathered friends in RAMM's birds' gallery. RSPB experts will be on hand to answer your questions on the collections and the work of the RSPB. Free guided wildlife tours through RAMM, starting in the In Find Feather gallery at 11am and 2pm.*
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Children's Holiday Workshops: Live and Let Live
Friday 12 April, £15 per child
RAMM Meeting rooms A and B
How did the populations mingle and trade and what evidence do we have? Make coins and clay pots and take part in some trade. Find out about Roman and British shrines. Uncover some archaeological finds and talk about some local ones.*
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Lions!
Friday 12 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm, admission charged
St Nicholas Priory, The Mint, off Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3BL
Wealthy Tudor people sometimes liked fierce and impressive carved animals in their houses. Make clay lion heads like the wooden ones in our parlour - they can be as tame or as fierce as you like.*
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Rathbones Spring Concert Series: Emma Johnson Clarinet, John Lenehan Piano
Wednesday 17 April, £20
RAMM Gallery 20 Museum doors open at 6pm. Drinks are available from 6.30pm for a donation of £2. Concert begins at 7.30pm
Emma Johnson has an international career as a soloist. She has performed across Europe, the USA and the Far East, as well as in Africa and Australia in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Concertgebouw, the Louvre and the Barbican.
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Afternoon lecture: A Frozen Moment in Antarctica
Saturday 20 April, 2.30pm to 3.30pm, £6 (£4.50)
RAMM Gallery 20
West Country-based winner in the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, researcher and ecologist, Mark Tatchell, will share his passion and fascination with the pristine Antarctic environment in a lecture building on his extensive experience of working as a wildlife guide on expeditions.
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What do you Collect? My Purrfect Collection
22 April to 21 July
RAMM Finders Keepers? gallery
Hello Kitty originated in Japan in 1974 and has been popular for all ages ever since. In the latest celebration of the passions of local collectors we will be showcasing one person's Hello Kitty collection, amassed since the mid 1980s.
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Evening Lecture: Dispossession and the History of Medicine in Early Modern England
Tuesday 23 April, 6.30 to 8pm, £7 (£5)
RAMM Gallery 20
Dr Lauren Kassell, Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, will discuss beliefs surrounding demons, possession and healing in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England.
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Family evening with Michael Morpurgo: From All Around the Year to War Horse
Fri 26 April, 6pm, £10 (£5)
RAMM Gallery 20
In this family evening he will talk about his connection with and love of Devon, its people and landscape, and their place in his stories.
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Coded Clothes
27 April to 8 December
RAMM World Cultures gallery
This display shows a special selection of adornments from RAMM's World Cultures collection. What do your clothes say about you?
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Evening lecture: Museum of the Year and Museums for the Future
Tuesday 30 April, 7 to 8pm, £7 (£5)
RAMM Gallery 20
Chris Smith will reflect on the aspects of RAMM's transformation that particularly won the judges' admiration and on how this leads into a broader vision of how museums generally can fulfil their best and most compelling roles in the future.
*All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Accompanying adults can watch/supervise for free. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait.
From time to time the galleries will be closed for special events; please check before travelling, phone: 01392 265858
For more information visit www.rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on
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