Join us at the University's first Community Festival! We're delighted that our Museums on Wheels stand will be rolling up the hill to the University of Reading's first Community Festival on the Whiteknights Campus! We'll be running a fun family activity inspired by Museum Partnership Reading's Our Green Stories campaign. The brand-new one-day festival is [...]

Celebrating all things sewing and fashion, with a rural twist MERL Fashion Week is a product of the Barnett Project which has been exploring the stories and themes relating to the 97 sewing machines in the Barnett collection at The MERL. There will be new displays showcasing the collection, reminiscence sessions and events inspired by [...]

Join us for this opportunity to share your family histories in relation to sewing machines. There will be a unique chance to view some of the MERL’s sewing machines from our stores and see what memories they evoke. We would like to collect your reminiscence, which will be turned into an online exhibition, with potential [...]

This one-day art workshop is aimed at sharing the work of an exciting Wellcome Trust funded project on animal feeding. The project looks at why people keep and feed animals in zoos and as pets, and how and why we feed wildlife either deliberately or unintentionally. Perhaps most importantly the project looks at what the […]