The two-year project ‘A la Ronde – Conserving the Past, Creating the Future’ is now complete.
Designed to reimagine A la Ronde and engage new audiences, the project has included partnerships with local community groups, significant conservation work, the development of exciting digital offers and virtual tours, creation of work experience placements for students, and the delivery of...
A key part of the A la Ronde: Conserving the Past, Creating the Future project, ‘The Compendium’ is a newly created digital space for online visitors to experience. A ‘one stop shop’ of all things A la Ronde-related, ‘The Compendium’ is a collection of stories to delight and surprise. For the first time, we have created a central place where in-depth information about the house, the grounds,...
A la Ronde is hosting a five day ‘Summer Festival’ to celebrate the culmination of its two year-long project: ‘A la Ronde: Conserving the Past, Creating the Future’. This five-day festival will run from Tuesday 16 July to Saturday 20 July 2024.
Visitors can see A la Ronde in an exciting new light, with special offers such as:
A new ‘Room of Discovery’ is now open to visitors at A la Ronde, cared for by the National Trust near Exmouth, Devon. The Room of Discovery contains an immersive re-interpretation of A la Ronde’s intricate 200-year-old Shell Gallery, offering visitors a sense of the original space, which is too fragile to enter, to ensure its survival.
It has been designed to provide a similar sense...
A new exhibition is opening at A la Ronde, near Exmouth in Devon, focused on the information and discoveries brought to light by a recent major conservation project.
The exhibition follows the conservation journey of the rare and unusual decorative interiors created at A la Ronde at the end of the eighteenth century, including the delicate Shell Gallery, Grotto Staircase, Feather...
Across Devon, National Trust gardens are filling with colourful spring blooms, and houses are looking tip-top after their intensive winter cleans.
There’s loads going on this season from Easter adventures and family trails to tree planting and learning about veteran trees to guided art tours and much more.
What’s more, every time you experience a National Trust day out, you...
An exciting new partnership between family history company Findmypast and the National Trust has uncovered stories from the 1921 Census – all relating to National Trust sites and including the tale of scandalous A la Ronde resident Reverend Oswald Reichel.
The 1921 Census was digitised and published online exclusively by Findmypast last year and offers a unique snapshot in time of...
The National Trust’s A la Ronde, in Exmouth, Devon is hosting a volunteer recruitment day on Thursday 13 July, 10.30am-1.00pm.
Budding volunteers are invited to come along to A la Ronde to chat with staff and volunteers and learn about the multiple ways to get involved with the National Trust’s team.
There are many great ways to volunteer at A la Ronde, whether it is re-...
The National Trust has begun a project to secure the internationally significant interior at A la Ronde in Devon, and to transform the experience of A la Ronde for visitors and volunteers.
Built in the 18th-century by cousins Jane and Mary Parminter and inspired by their travels, the house at A la Ronde is well known for its unique 16-sided exterior and the fascinating decoration and...
Three historically important travelling trunks, which are believed to date from before 1796, have recently been away for conservation repair and have returned ready for display to help tell the story of this unique sixteen-sided house.
The trunks are an important part of A La Ronde’s history. They are thought to have gone on the Grand Tour of Europe with Jane and Mary Parminter in...
