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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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.
As part of our project to make the decorative arts collection digitally accessible, we have been photographing our ceramics and focusing especially on RAMM’s Martinware.
South West Collections Explorer has a new feature for researchers and others. It allows visitors to curate a collection of objects then share or keep the collection private.
After securing the Seaton Down Hoard for the people of Devon and Exeter RAMM staff are now working on making the 23,000 coins accessible for research and interpretation by specialists and the public.
The Research Collection is part of the RAMM collections website
Research by Bryony Lloyd in 2005 to analyse the Burmese collection at RAMM and propose its significance.
Tabitha Cadbury researches the whole Central African collection at RAMM to propose its significance in relation to other known collections.
Assessment of the skeletal remains held by RAMM by Skeletal Assessment Report by Claire Hodson, PhD candidate, University of Durham
