Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter have joined with ‘Friends of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum’ in Exeter to give an annual public lecture. This lecture helps to build on the longstanding partnership between both the department and the museum, enabling the department to share their expertise on RAMM’s collections both with Friends and with the wider public.
Each year a member of the department will provide a lecture which uses some aspect of RAMM's wonderful collections of historic, cultural, ethnographic, artistic, architectural, and natural history materials as a point-of-departure to explore a theme in archaeology or history.
The inaugural lecture to begin this collaboration will be provided by Professor Nandini Chatterjee, Professor of South Asian History and Holly Morgenroth, natural sciences curator at RAMM. They will explore an exquisite collection of nature-themed prints and watercolours produced by Indian artists in the early days of the British Empire in India. These drawings record British experience of new environments, and cross-cultural efforts at capturing new knowledge, through collaboration that was unequal but creative.
For more information and bookings, please see the RAMM website.
