Collectors & Collections in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

Saturday 18th May 2013

SHNH Spring Meeting, Special General Meeting & AGM

The Spring Meeting, Special General Meeting and AGM of the Society for the History of Natural History will be held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen St, Exeter, Devon EX4 3RX

RAMM cares for a wonderful and diverse collection consisting of over one million individual objects and specimens from all over the globe. The collections contain items of local, national and international importance, and many are of outstanding historical or cultural significance. For more information on the museum and its collections see http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/.

 Outline Programme April 2013

10.00 – 10.30 Registration and tea/coffee

10.30 – 12.00 Morning session: brief presentations on the natural history collectors and collections held in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.

12.00-12.30   SHNH Special General meeting and Annual General Meeting (details will be in SGM/AGM papers to be circulated nearer the date)

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break*

14.00 – 15.00: “Behind the scenes” collection tours with Curator, Holly Morgenroth.

15.00 – Delegates free to explore museum and/or Exeter

Please click here to register