Weekly What's On: April 28th to May 4th
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar MERL Seminar series: The Great War & the countryside Reading’s First World War Tuesday 29th April, 1-2pm Free. Drop-in […]
Weekly What's on: 22nd to 27th April
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar Guided tour Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays, 3-3.45pm Free, booking advisable Let our fully trained tour guides tell you the […]
Weekly What's On: 7th to 13th April
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar Guided tours Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays, 3-3.45pm (Please note that we are closed on Thurs 17th April and over […]
Weekly What's On: 31st March to 6th April
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar Reading University College: WW1 and beyond Tuesday 1st April to 31 August, 2014 Staircase hall, MERL Free, drop-in, normal museum […]
Weekly What's On: 24 to 30th March
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar #MuseumWeek Join us this week for a virtual event over on Twitter. MERL is joining museums across Europe in […]
Weekly What's On: 17th to 23rd March, 2014
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar Seminar series: Untouchable England MERL and the BBC: Rural re-enactment and gestural reconstruction in the 1950s Dr Ollie Douglas, […]
Press release: Science Week is a riot at Uni Museum
Volunteers at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) will present a Reading Science Week event with a difference on Saturday 22nd March. Reading Science Week is part of National Science and Engineering Week (NSEW), a ten-day national programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK aimed at people of […]
Press release: #MuseumWeek comes to University of Reading
The University of Reading’s museums and collections will join museums and galleries from across the UK and Europe on Twitter later this month for the first ever #MuseumWeek, a project that will connect people to artwork, culture, history and science in new and interactive ways. #MuseumWeek will take place from Monday 24th March – Sunday […]
Weekly What's On: 10th – 16th March
You can find full details of all our forthcoming events and activities in our What’s On and MERL Families guides, which are now available from the Museum or to download from our website You can also see all events on our online calendar MERL Seminar series: Untouchable England The Dark Monarch: magic and modernity in British art Professor Alun Rowlands, Department of […]
Our Country Lives project submitted!
written by Adam Koszary, Project Officer for Our Country Lives. MERL’s HLF project Our Country Lives reached an important milestone last Monday when we submitted our bid for second stage funding to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). We will find out whether we have been successful in June. Our consultants for the design of the new galleries, […]