RAMM’s digital close-up captions enable you to use your own mobile device to read the information that is on display beside each object. There are over 8,000 objects on display.
Below is a list of gallery names to enable you to navigate to the correct captions. The larger galleries are subdivided into specific subjects or the time period of each case.
Temporary Exhibitions (G22 & 21)
Exeter’s Fine Art Collection (G20)
- Pressing Images: Prints from Exeter’s fine art collection
- ‘Bulk: Everlasting Colour’ by Celine Condorelli
Fly on the Wall (G18)
In Fine Feather (G17)
Sladen’s Study (G16)
Ancient Worlds (G15)
World Cultures Americas (G13)
World Cultures (G12)
- Buddhism
- Samurai Costume
- Hinduism
- Pacific display 1 The Sea Defines Us
- Pacific display 2 Competition and Conflict
- Pacific display 3 The Stuff of Life
- Pacific display 4 Speaking to the Gods
- Pacific display 5 Rites of Passage
- Africa display 1 African Encounters
- Africa display 2 Adire/ Nancy Stanfield
- Africa display 3 Weaving Worlds
- Africa display 4 Faces of Africa?
- Africa display 5 African Metalwork
Finders Keepers (G11)
- de la Garde – Beetles
- Collecting and protecting
- Cresswell and Gosse
- Give and take
- Life-changing knowledge
- Palliser – Lace
- Treadwin – Lace
- Peel – Soldiers, scientists, souvenir hunters
- Cook, Veitch, Kingdon, Montague and Townsend
- Stone, Pearce and Griffiths – Curious Crazes
- Ross and D’Urban – Where did museums begin?
- Bowring
- What do you collect? Mingei pottery
Cafe temporary exhibitions & displays
Courtyard (G1)
- Upper
- Lower
- Installation – ‘Wing’ by Peter Randall-Page
- ‘Portrait of Des’ by Nahem Shoa
- ‘Pentimenti (0751)’ by Celine Condorelli
Making History (G3 and G4)
The cases in Making History contain a large number of objects and you will find some are divided into subsets as the number series repeats.
- 1945 to present – A changed land
- 1900 to 1945 – War and peace
- 1800 to 1900 – Industry moves on
- 1642 to 1800 – What makes a Golden Age
- 1485 to 1642 – Wider horizons
- 400 to 1485 – Into the Middle Ages
- 2,000 BC to 400 AD – The Romans in Devon
- 6,000 to 2,000 – An organised society
- 12,000 to 6,000 – Making their mark
- 19th Century to Roman – open wall exhibits
Down to Earth (G2)
- Theme introductory text
- 409 to 300 million years ago
- 300 to 290 million years ago
- 290 to 208 million years ago
- 208 to 65 million years ago
- 65 to 1.6 million years ago
- 1.6 million to 12,000 years ago