Our Green Stories Tours: Our Green Fingers
Our Green Stories Tours: Do not feed the animals
Our Green Stories Tours: Fossil Fuels
Museums on Wheels
Our rolling programme, Museums on Wheels is bringing The MERL and Reading Museum to events across Reading with a collection-sharing roadshow offering hands-on activities inspired by ‘Our Green Stories’. Join us for surprising and inspiring insights into our collections and community connections. In 2023 our museums are rolling to: Saturday 10th June – 11 am […]
Summer Screen: MERLvellous Movies
Stitch Up
Stitch Up is Jelly’s relaxed sewing social. Bring your own hand sewing project to work on, contribute to our English paper pieced community quilt or make your sewing mark on the Reading Bayeux Tapestry – an ongoing community project creating a local version of the slightly more famous one housed at Reading Museum. Come and […]
‘Climate Change’ Artwork Display
For Reading Climate Festival, we are adding some very special material to the Our Green Stories gallery trail at The MERL. The gallery trail explores six of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through links to items in the MERL collections. In this new display, we will explore these Goals through the artwork from the Ladybird […]
Cheese Night (Postponed from 28th Sept)
Explore the story of cheese through The MERL’s archive and objects with collections specialists, and share a sociable evening discovering some delicious local cheeses and accompaniments, including a carefully paired drinks, all guided by the delightful Angela Brown, our Retail Supervisor and resident cheese expert! After an introduction to the MERL’s cheese-related objects from curator […]
Heritage Open Days at The MERL
Book onto one of these special events for a unique chance to view a pop-up display of items from the University of Reading’s Special Collections and Art Collections, housed at The MERL site and not currently on public display. Material will be selected by our curatorial and archives team and will aim to celebrate the […]
The MERL Family Picnic and Farm Event with Miller’s Ark
JOIN US AT THE MERL TO MEET THE MILLER’S ARK ANIMALS AND ENJOY THE GARDEN Bring a picnic and blanket and enjoy a range of hand-on activities from The MERL and visit real farm animals from Miller’s Ark. List of free activities to enjoy on the day: Miller’s Ark mobile farm – pet and feed […]