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Main for Reading Museum

  • Your Visit
    • Opening times
    • How to get here
    • What to see
    • Café
    • Donate
    • Access
    • Information for autistic visitors
    • Families
    • Group Visits
    • Abbey Quarter
    • St James' Way
    • The Great West Way
    • Your views
    • Our building history
    • Disruption and closures
  • Collections
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Britain's Bayeux Tapestry
    • Natural History
    • Reading's History
    • World
    • Online Collections
    • Collections Enquiries
    • Image Enquiries
  • What's on
  • Shop
  • Blog
  • Online exhibitions
    • Reading's DIGITAL Revolution
    • Windrush Day
    • Where Do We Go From Here? - Audio Trail
    • Arctic Mirage: Words and Music
    • Oxford Road Stories
    • Oxford Road: Lifespring Stories
    • Reading's 'Little Italy'
    • Huntley & Palmers history
    • Reading Festival 1971
    • Roman Silchester: A Virtual Exhibition
    • Reading Abbey's most famous manuscript
    • VE Day
    • Oh Beautiful World
    • Animal World Art
    • Art Stories online exhibition
  • Schools
    • Looking for free sessions?
    • Sessions in Museum
    • Virtual Sessions
    • School Loan Boxes
    • Information for teachers
    • Offers for Home Educated Children
    • Resources
  • Get involved
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Memory Boxes
    • Sponsor and venue hire
    • Adopt an Object
    • Friends of Reading Museum
    • Museum on Wheels
    • Youth Panel
    • Museum projects
    • Our Green Stories
    • Museum of Sanctuary
    • Roman Britain Reimagined in Reading
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Bayeux Tapestry at Reading Museum

Welcome to Reading Museum

Reading's museum of art, archaeology, history and natural history

Visitors enjoying the Huntley and Palmers Gallery

Your visit

Visit our 10 hands on galleries, see Britain's Bayeux Tapestry, explore 200 years of biscuit history in the Huntley & Palmers Gallery and discover Reading's historic Abbey Quarter and Jane Austen's school. Book a guided tour of the Bayeux Tapestry or Reading Abbey

Plan Your Visit

Open Tuesday to Saturday

Admission is free

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Plan your visit

What's on at Reading Museum

Sumer is Icumen in – ‘The Reading Rota’

Family Fun at Reading Museum!

Bayeux Tapestry Tours

Reading Abbey Quarter Tour

Britain's Bayeux Tapestry

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Reading Museum,

Blagrave Street,

Reading,

RG1 1QH

 

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