Community - The Museum of English Rural Life

Changing Perspectives: A Kale of Two Cities

Learn about the differences between growing food in contemporary Hong Kong and London, and what it’s like to become a grower today.

Further Afield update blog – August 2024

Read the latest update from our Further Afield project, exploring how we can embrace and invite new perspectives within our interpretation.

Further Afield update blog – May 2024

Read our latest update on the Further Afield project, which trials new approaches to co-curation with community groups.

The Power to Tell It for Ourselves

Acquisition, cataloguing and display are vital matters of consent. Learn how we’re evolving our approach throughout our work.

Community Gardening: Sow What?

Our latest community project explored how gardening and cooperation benefit wellbeing.

The MERL is going Further Afield

Collections Researcher Tim Jerrome introduces our newest project at The MERL, Further Afield, which trials new approaches to community driven museum outputs, working with groups who have been historically underrepresented in the countryside.

Launching the Youth Manifesto

As museums across the country celebrate Kids in Museums’ Takeover Day, we are taking the opportunity to share Museum Partnership Reading’s Youth Manifesto, a short film made by young people expressing their views on our museums and how they could be more relevant to them in future.