News and Views

Night of the living rural history collection

For Halloween, discover four objects from our collection that would provide perfect utility and inspiration for any rural villain.

Learn about the creative collaborations produced with a range of different communities as part of 51 Voices, our 70th anniversary celebrations.

Discover the Voices that featured throughout July in our anniversary online exhibition, 51 Voices, celebrating seventy years of The MERL.

Find out the challenges we faced in researching the stories of queer rural people for our July 2021 exhibition, Queer Constellations.

Between 31 August and 1 October, the reading room will be moving to the Conference Room to make way for essential maintenance work.

Learn about the latest student exhibition at The MERL, created by third year Museum Studies students at the University of Reading.

Learn how The MERL and Reading Museum are taking part in Wild Being, a new social prescribing project for the people of Reading.

This year The MERL is hosting the nineteenth annual congress of AIMA. Find out what AIMA is and how you can get involved.

In our latest 51 Voices roundup, discover the four new Voices added in June and the objects and archives they explore.