Dr. Zachary Kingdon spent four days at RAMM last week examining a small number of items from Central and West Africa.
World Cultures
This report relates to research undertaken on the Royal Albert Memorial Museum’s (RAMM’s) Amazonian collection
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.
Visitors making their way through the first floor galleries in RAMM will have noticed a large section of the World Cultures gallery has been blocked off with tall blue-painted hoarding, this blog explains why.
The display cases will show objects from the island cultures of the Pacific Ocean (a vast region we call Oceania) are about to be transformed.
As part of Grand Challenges 2015, a group of University of Exeter students have researched and digitised two objects from the collection.
Kirstin Leith describes her research into Melanesian human skulls at RAMM as part of the Discovering Worlds project
Social Fabric: African Textiles Today exhibition installed at RAMM
In 2014, RAMM successfully received £89,900 from the Designation Development Fund for a project called Discovering Worlds. It is a wonderful opportunity to show the fine collection of objects from the Pacific Islands.