Get that Christmassy feeling in the museum this December, with festive events for kids and grown-ups alike.
Winter’s Edge: Classical music in the museum
Fri 8 December, 6.30 to 9.30pm, £25
A musical journey through the museum exploring winter with music from Schubert’s Winterreise, seasonal songs and quartet music by Debussy, Mendelssohn and Caroline Shaw. Join the Haldon String Quartet and performer Freddie Crowley, previously a chorister at Exeter Cathedral and choral scholar graduate of Merton College, Oxford, as they perform within the surroundings of the museum. With a drink and canapes on arrival, you will move around the galleries throughout the evening listening to each of the performances taking place. Find out more and book.
Kids crafts: Glowing festive lanterns
Tue 19 December, 10.30am to 3.30pm, £3.50 per child
Light up your life and create your own magical festive lantern to take home.
Cast away the mid-winter gloom and cosy up with your very own, hand-made festive lantern. Once you’re finished, pop a tea-light inside, take it home and let the play of light and shadow scatter away the long winter night, or give it to someone special for that extra merry gift. Drop-in, last entry 3pm.
Kids crafts: Festive wildlife decorations
Wed 20 December, 10.30am to 3.30pm, £3.50 per child
RAMM’s animals are getting ready for the festivities. Decorate your own wooden bauble featuring one of our animals in a seasonal setting.
Perhaps Gerald the Giraffe playing in the snow or our polar bear wearing a hat and scarf; or maybe the tiger opening a present or our moose with mistletoe hanging from his antlers?
Let your imagination go wild and create a decoration to hang on your tree for years to come. Drop in, last entry 3pm.
Meet characters from the past
Thur 21 & Fri 22 December, 10.30am to 3.30pm
Travel back to the earliest days of Yuletide merriment to see what our resident Roman soldier might have thought about the new celebration. Bump into our WWII warden and learn how he and others like him kept up the Christmas spirit even during the darkest of times. Or seek out our Victorian Lady Collector as she explores the origin of trees, lights and many of the other traditions we take for granted at this time of year.
Our historical friends will be wandering RAMM’s galleries throughout the day – see if you can find them all.
