Explore RAMM's Fine Art Collection
Fully refurbished, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum has new displays showcasing the collections and collectors that have helped RAMM to become one of Britain’s finest regional museums. They tell the story of Exeter and Devon from the prehistoric to the present but, more than a local museum, its internationally important world cultures and natural history collections also tell a story of global exploration and collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The splendid Victorian building has been repaired, refurbished and extended preparing it for the 21st century. RAMM is open 10am to 5pm every day except Mondays and bank holidays and entry is still free!
RAMM cares for a wonderful and diverse collection consisting of over one million individual objects and specimens from all over the globe. It is divided into the following curatorial departments: antiquities; ethnography; natural history, decorative and fine arts.
The collections contain items of local, national and international importance, and many are of outstanding historical or cultural significance. The ethnography collection has achieved Designated Collection status and RAMM as a whole won the title Museum of the Year in 2012.
RAMM's Fine Art collection comprises over 8,000 objects in an eclectic mix of paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture, representing important British artists and also celebrating the Museum's location in the South West.
The collection is strong in portraiture and has a large collection of landscape paintings, primarily of Devon and Exeter by local and national artists. Later the collecting policy broadened to take in other British and European art, including Victorian. There is also a collection of 20th century artworks.
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