Events
DEI Cinema Club June
Enjoy 'virtual cinema club' in the comfort of your own home
Virtual Tour – Reading the walls
Join us on our usual Wednesday tour - reading the history of our building, from the walls, as you can see it today
Take part in our Big Draw Event – Capturing Unusual Creatures
Beth Howell investigates curiosity in the animals and wildlife described and depicted in 19th century books of exploration in the collections of the Devon and Exeter Institution - what animal can you draw?
VE Day – Cooking the Books
Today marks the 75th anniversary of VE day, when the allied forces announced Victory in Europe on May 8th, 1945.
Family lockdown activities and virtual Bookworms
We are delighted to bring you our popular family learning programme and Bookworms junior members' club online.
Join in with craft activities, workshops and experiments using materials that are easy to find at home.
Picturing the Skull
Lunchtime Lecture: An exploration of the skull as a pictorial device
“Rabbit Food”: The Romantic roots of Vegetarianism
Lunchtime Lecture: “By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system”-
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet
Virtual Tour – The Roof
Join us on our usual Wednesday tour - this week we're travelling back through time to the roof restoration of 2016
Picturing the Jabberwock
Our online gallery of creative responses
Stories of Spirited Children
Lunchtime Lecture: Sometimes, though we try very hard, we don’t always behave how we would like to! Keep out of mischief with these stories about spirited children.