Our Green Stories Gallery Tours – February
Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational trip through the galleries, exploring our collections, and sharing Green Stories about environment, climate action, social justice, and the life and future of the planet. Each tour […]
James Joyce: a love of language
This display of items from the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection uses translations of James Joyce’s work to explore his place as a European and a citizen of the world. The exhibition opens on the European Day of Languages and closes on Joyce’s birthday. The University of Reading has acquired a major collection of [...]
What is Landscape? on Saturday 9th December
What does landscape mean to you? Many people care deeply about landscape, but why does it matter to us so much? ‘What is Landscape?’ will explore the varied and often highly personal meanings that landscape has for us. There will be short talks by four of the UK’s leading landscape thinkers, followed by an open [...]
Our Green Stories Tours: Our Green Artists
In our new series of these popular gallery tours, Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational trip around the museum site, exploring our collections, and sharing Green Stories about environment, climate action, social justice, [...]
Our Green Stories Tours: Our Green Fingers
In our new series of these popular gallery tours, Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational trip around the museum site, exploring our collections, and sharing Green Stories about environment, climate action, social justice, [...]
Our Green Stories Tours: Do not feed the animals
In our new series of these popular gallery tours, Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational trip around the museum site, exploring our collections, and sharing Green Stories about environment, climate action, social justice, [...]
Our Green Stories Tours: Fossil Fuels
In our new series of these popular gallery tours, Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational trip around the museum site, exploring our collections, and sharing Green Stories about environment, climate action, social justice, [...]
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 opportunities and activities. Join us for surprising and inspiring insights into our collections and community connections. In 2024 our museums are rolling to: Upcoming dates Forbury Fiesta Saturday 11 May 2024 in [...]
Summer Screen: MERLvellous Movies
For the first time, we are bringing outdoor cinema to The MERL’s beautiful garden this Summer! Enjoy family films including Peter Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep and more. All you need to do is buy a ticket, pack your picnic (or enjoy the MERL’s café offerings), and blanket, and join us outside! Weds 2nd Aug, 11am: [...]
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 […]