Partnerships

RAMM and our parent body, Exeter City Council, would like to thank all of the museum’s partners. They enable the public collection of over one million objects, to be used in innovative and creative ways with the communities we serve. RAMM would like to give special thanks to the University of Exeter and Arts Council England, for the ongoing supportive partnerships we hold with them.

Arts Council England

National Portfolio Organisation

National Portfolio Organisations receive regular funding from Arts Council England. They represent some of the best practice in the world in theatre, music, museums, dance, libraries, combined arts, literature and visual arts.

This funding provides a major boost to RAMM enabling the museum to welcome more visitors. It also assists RAMM in working with communities and young people, as well as maintaining and developing its own outstanding collections.

University of Exeter

Staff from RAMM and the University of Exeter collaborate on research and organise exhibitions and events to showcase RAMM’s world-class collections.

RAMM and the university have signed an agreement so we can continue to work together to promote knowledge and understanding, using RAMM’s artefacts and the university’s academic expertise. This has also led to new training and work experience opportunities for students, who are able to use the museum’s facilities and collections.

Both the University of Exeter and RAMM owe their origins to the Devon & Exeter Albert Memorial Institute, and they originally shared the same building on Queen Street.

University students have completed placements, training courses and internships at RAMM, helping staff plan museum events, exhibitions and audience-development activities. Students have also completed PhDs jointly supervised by the University of Exeter and RAMM on digital heritage, dementia and game design for museums. Exeter students frequently volunteer at RAMM.

University of Exeter academics using the extraordinary collections at the museum as part of their research have digitised thousands of magic lantern slides as part of a pan-European project to protect them for future generations.

Archaeologists are re-analysing RAMM’s collection of artefacts excavated in the 1970s and 80s to shed new light on Exeter’s history from Roman legionary fortress to Tudor city.

Further afield, museum staff and academics have collaborated on a project to create a new app to guide visitors around Renaissance cities such as Trento, Hamburg, Deventer, Valencia and Exeter. They have also worked together with colleagues in India to trace the history behind RAMM’s collection of botanical paintings produced by Indian artists working for the East India Company in the 18th century.