Museum sights in Exeter
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Bill Douglas Centre
A delightful homage to film and fun, the Bill Douglas Centre is a compact collection of all things celluloid, from magic lanterns to Mickey Mouse. Inside discover just what the butler did see and why the flicks are called the flicks. In a mass of movie memorabilia Charlie Chaplin bottle stoppers mingle with Ginger Rogers playing cards, James Bond board games and Star Wars toys.
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Roman Exeter features strongly in the city's museum. Expect chunks of mosaic, bits of amphorae and a good re-creation of the bathhouse that used to lie under what is now Cathedral Green. There are also piles of south Devon flints, and a reconstruction of a Dartmoor Bronze Age roundhouse. Hunt out the tomb-like Egypt room, complete with a 3000-year-old mummy case and (mock-up) hieroglyphics on the walls. There are good, free quiz sheets for children.
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Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Exeter's multipurpose museum has a little bit of everything, from Roman-era artefacts dug up around the city to excellent ethnographic displays from across the globe (look out for some spooky African masks and an impressive suit of samurai armour).
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Quay House Interpretation & Visitor Centre
The Quay House Interpretation & Visitor Centre , with its small artefact and map collection, has more on the quay's past. There are more shops and cafés on the other side of the river.
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