Blog Join us in exploring Reading's history, our community and our objects. All Posts Collections Community Get involved Reading’s history Reading Abbey Things to do Apply Reading Museum at the V&A’s The Music Is Black exhibition 23 Apr 2026 Reading Museum is delighted to have loaned one of its most distinctive and thought‑provoking objects to the newly opened V&A East Museum for The Music Is Black: A British Story By Association - a new art commission for Reading Museum 12 Mar 2026 In this guest blog Martina Margetts explores Reading Museum’s important new art commission by metalsmith Adi Toch . This is a Contemporary Art Society commission supported by the Griffin Fund Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace. Museum's Marvels: Adventures at Reading Museum 9 Feb 2026 Learn how the museum combined history and fantasy using museum objects. A Royal Miniature Mystery Solved: Huntley & Palmers and Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House 28 Nov 2025 Guest blogger Zoe Handy shares how her fascination for all things miniature solved a 100-year-old royal mystery from Reading Museum’s collection… What did the Romans introduce to Britain? 18 Nov 2025 This blog explores some of the interesting ideas and activities that Roman culture brought to the British Isles. A year of learning at Reading Museum 26 Sep 2025 A Year of Learning at Reading Museum: 2024–25 The 2024–25 academic year has been a vibrant and inspiring one for the Learning Team at Reading Museum. From bustling school visits Reflections from Another Year of Youth Panel 24 Sep 2025 As the start of term begins, it’s the start of a new year for the Museums Partnership Reading Youth Panel. With the Panellists embarking on a new series of projects Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Reading Museum at the V&A’s The Music Is Black exhibition 23 Apr 2026 Reading Museum is delighted to have loaned one of its most distinctive and thought‑provoking objects to the newly opened V&A East Museum for The Music Is Black: A British Story
By Association - a new art commission for Reading Museum 12 Mar 2026 In this guest blog Martina Margetts explores Reading Museum’s important new art commission by metalsmith Adi Toch . This is a Contemporary Art Society commission supported by the Griffin Fund
Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace.
Museum's Marvels: Adventures at Reading Museum 9 Feb 2026 Learn how the museum combined history and fantasy using museum objects.
A Royal Miniature Mystery Solved: Huntley & Palmers and Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House 28 Nov 2025 Guest blogger Zoe Handy shares how her fascination for all things miniature solved a 100-year-old royal mystery from Reading Museum’s collection…
What did the Romans introduce to Britain? 18 Nov 2025 This blog explores some of the interesting ideas and activities that Roman culture brought to the British Isles.
A year of learning at Reading Museum 26 Sep 2025 A Year of Learning at Reading Museum: 2024–25 The 2024–25 academic year has been a vibrant and inspiring one for the Learning Team at Reading Museum. From bustling school visits
Reflections from Another Year of Youth Panel 24 Sep 2025 As the start of term begins, it’s the start of a new year for the Museums Partnership Reading Youth Panel. With the Panellists embarking on a new series of projects
Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal
