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Sew What?
We are all starting to ask more questions about fashion. Where do our clothes come from? How environmentally sustainable are they? Should we be making more and buying less? These questions are not just relevant to our modern society. The history of garment making is one deeply intertwined with British culture, both rural and urban. […]
Find out more »Our Green Stories Gallery Trail
Follow our gallery trail to delve into environmental issues past and present Our Green Stories is a Museums Partnership Reading campaign exploring climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity loss through collections. Pick up a free copy of the trail at reception, and use our galleries to help you consider ways we can all care for the […]
Find out more »‘Climate Change’ Artwork Display
As part of the Reading Climate Festival, we included some very special material to the Our Green Stories gallery trail at The MERL. The gallery trail explores six of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals through links to items in the MERL collections. In this display, we explore these Goals through the artwork from the Ladybird […]
Find out more »Native Species – FULLY BOOKED
GET UP CLOSE TO AMAZING ANIMALS! See and learn about the awesome animals we have living here in the UK. Zoolab will use their bigger brighter versions of things to tell you all about the Frogs, Snakes, Lizards and all sorts of amazing insects that we can find in our gardens, parks and countryside. This […]
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