Just as RAMM borrows objects from other museums, RAMM also lends the collections in its care to museums around the world. Sometimes this is for an exhibition, other times it is for research.
This blog post highlights just a few of the objects that RAMM has sent out on loan over the past two years.
In April 2023, RAMM commissioned a film about the colourful clothing made by Indigenous Maya weavers. Three women from the town of Santa Catarina Palopó talk about the importance of preserving their weaving practices, their heritage and their identity. The film reflects a Guatemala connection of traditional Maya clothing within the museum’s ethnographic collection. Examples of these clothes can be seen by visitors in the new World Cultures displays. The Ancestral Voices project was supported by the Designation Development Fund, Arts Council England.
Guest blog by Will Silcox of the University of Exeter . Appropriation or appreciation? Why commodifying other cultures is problematic.
In the upcoming Nomads: Homes on the Move exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), people are invited to explore alternative ways of living from around the world. While appreciating these lifeways, we also aim to illustrate how they are under threat by Western colonial conservation projects.
Within the Museum’s historic archive there exists a letter from the Exeter City Police dated 1st December 1912. Written by the city’s Chief Constable, the letter lists a number of artefacts that were stolen from the gallery. Many of these items were never recovered, and the thief wasn’t caught.
Arnold Riley’s donation of an over-modelled skull: an update by Freya Jones
What to do if you’re thinking of offering items of ivory to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
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Last year in 2017, RAMM successfully received a grant of £190,000 from DCMS Wolfson to make physical improvements to the World Cultures gallery. This scheme is to be completed by April this year and includes the installation of a ventilation system, track lighting and three new display cases.
Rediscovered Voices is the title of a new public online distance learning course from Exeter University