Budleigh Past and Present

  Exeter ’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery     Image credit: Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery and Exeter City Council It seems appropriate in 2013 to remember the links between Exeter ’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum www.exeter.gov.uk/ram   and the much smaller Fairlynch Museum.     It was exactly two hundred years ago that the first steps towards a museum for the city were taken when the Devon and Exeter Institution opened in 1813, with the aims of “promoting the general diffusion of Science, Literature and Art” and of “illustrating the Natural and Civic History of the County of Devon and the City of Exeter.”   And it was in that year that Henry Carter, one of the county’s great scientists, pictured below, was born in Budleigh Salterton.                                    ...