Youth Panel

Our Youth Panel, for young people aged 14 – 18, offers collective work experience opportunities across The MERL and Reading Museum as part of Museums Partnership Reading’s youth programme. We meet monthly to work on a variety of exciting projects which are great for developing a range of transferable skills. Our panel members influence current projects and programming and are change-makers within Reading’s culture and heritage sector.

March Youth Panel

Reading Museum is planning on renewing the Silchester Gallery. The gallery was opened over 25 years ago and displays the Museum’s collection of artefacts excavated at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, Silchester. This Youth Panel session will be led by Alis Templeton and Guja Bandini.

Reading Museum is currently applying to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for funding to redisplay the Gallery and to run more Roman-related activities and events, and would like the Youth Panel’s input. We’d like to know what you think of the current gallery, how you think we could make Roman Reading more appealing and relevant to local people, and how you think the Museum might be able to work with the Youth Panel over a longer project to do this.

Upcoming Dates (on the third Thursday of the month, 4.30 pm – 6 pm):

• 20 March
• 17 April

For more information on how to join, please contact merlevents@reading.ac.uk.