Monthly Gallery Tours – September

Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas, will be joined by a different specialist for each of these monthly tours. Together they will take visitors on a short conversational guided trip through the galleries approaching our collection from a different perspective that reflects the guest speaker’s expertise, ensuring you’ll learn something new every time.

Each tour will last about 45 minutes and will culminate in a pop-up display or an opportunity to peek behind the scenes. At the end of the session there’ll be a chance to ask questions and to chat with the tour leaders.

9 September: Jane Austen gallery tour

This month our gallery tour will be led by Isabel Hughes, Associate Director of The MERL in conversation with Paddy Bullard, Associate Professor of English Literature and Book History (and Head of the Department of English Literature), University of Reading.  Together they will launch the new MERL gallery trail, ‘Jane Austen and Rural Life’, celebrating 250 years since her birth.