In March, the team from The University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab digitised objects from the Leopold Montague collection of of antiquities from Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East.
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Jamie Wildman blogs about his work on the chequered skipper butterfly and the discovery of very significant specimens at RAMM.
Guest blog by Julia Neville, of the ‘West Quarter in the 1920s Research Project’. Julia investigates the poor conditions of Exeter’s slums in the twentieth century.
University of Exeter researcher Emmanuelle Briolat explains how RAMM’s historic moth collections are helping understand hawkmoth vision
On the 26th February 2021 builders discovered a huge unexploded Second World War bomb in Glenthorne Road, Exeter. It caused mass disruption and evacuations of local residents.
In preparation for two exciting upcoming shows (A Language of Seeds and Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature) I have spent time with RAMM’s botany collections. Some plant specimens are local – collected within a few miles of RAMM. Others originate thousands of miles away.
Frederick Gordon Tutton (1888-1930) was a pioneer of early colour photography. He worked in Britain and the United States. One of his photographs is part of RAMM’s Fine Art collection.
Exeter University placement student Rory Weaver reports his research on Derrick Worton’s butterfly collection. Many of the 7,000 specimens come from Devon.
Blog from RAMM’s Assistant Curator of Photographs. Learn more about the photographs in RAMM’s collections that are part of the latest collections review.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest Elizabethan artists, Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547-1619). The Hilliards were a prominent family in Exeter, renowned for their craftsmanship. Although the name of Hilliard is now more associated with miniature portraits, the family were originally goldsmiths. Several objects linked to the Hilliards are now held in RAMM’s collection. Here we trace the family’s history, beginning with Nicholas’ father Richard.
