The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter reopens on Thursday 15 December 2011 with stunning new displays, fabulous exhibitions, wonderful new spaces and a new entrance linking RAMM to Rougemont Gardens the city’s Roman wall.
The museum is open every day except Mondays and bank holidays. The normal hours are 10am to 5pm but on Christmas Eve, Saturday 24 December, and New Year’s Eve, Saturday 31 December, RAMM will close early at 1pm. RAMM opens as normal, 10am to 5pm, from Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 December.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) on Queen Street, Exeter, Devon, England is the largest museum in the city.
Initially proposed by Sir Stafford Northcote as a practical memorial to Prince Albert, an appeal fund was launched in 1861 and the first phases of the building were completed by 1868. The Devon and Exeter Albert Memorial, as it was originally known, provided an integrated museum, art gallery, library, reading room, school of art and school of science in the manner long advocated by Prince Albert.
In 1899 York Wing was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary, and at the same time the title of Royal Albert Memorial was granted.
The building has changed little since then although the city library moved out of the Museum in 1930, the school of science ultimately developed into the University of Exeter and the school of art is now the University of Plymouth’s Faculty of Art & Education. The Museum then gradually expanded to fill the whole building.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Street, Exeter, EX4 3RX
T 01392 665 858
www.rammuseum.org.uk