The Museum of English Rural Life
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The MERL, @UniofReading. We explore the history of rural England, its communities, and its people. Chaotic Good.
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🥰Interested in bringing
all your friends
or
your (extremely) extended family
or
your pub quiz team
to visit us?
👏Come and see us at Excursions Show 2024 on 27 Jan to learn more about what we've got on offer for groups!
👉Can't wait that long? Visit merl.reading.ac.uk/visit-us/group…
The next free #autism -friendly Museums, My Way event at the Museum of English Rural Life in #Reading is during the half-term holiday on Monday, Feb 12, 10am-2pm. It is open to neurodivergent visitors of all ages. Tickets must be booked in advance tinyurl.com/86689phx The Museum of English Rural Life
🥱Feeling the post-holiday doldrums?
🌟Spark some creativity at Reading Museum!
👹Join us TOMORROW, Sat 13 Jan and spend the day drawing and sculpting with New_Directions_College_Reading in response to In the Company of Monsters. No previous experience required.
readingmuseum.org.uk/drawing-worksh…
Then there's The Museum of English Rural Life, home of a vast swathe of rural #HeritageTreasures , with an equally fasctinating programme of events to help you dig further!
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Museums My Way from The Museum of English Rural Life Monday Feb 12 in Half-Term 10-2pm #free merl.reading.ac.uk/event/museums-… #AutismInMuseums #autism
Ins and outs for 2024:
IN
speculating on the identity of curator Dr Ollie Douglas's long-lost 'mystery plough'
'men and women with a passion for ploughing'
OUT
tying large ploughs to hot air balloons (dangerous)
not reading our new blog on #PloughMonday 👇
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/p…
A huge welcome back to our Uni of Reading students, for the first day of spring term 2024! 🌺🌼🪻
This beautiful screenprint, titled 'Anna's Spring Garden' is by Reading-based artist Emily Gillmor
© The Artist. UAC/11131.
ten points to the first rare book/special collections professional to get me an online catalogue record for this
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group SHARP (@[email protected]) ACRL/RBMS Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
Oh, what the duck...
This 'Moby Duck' comic is nothing if not on-brand for Newberry Library! #Melville
#InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay
The Museum of English Rural Life Got to be this mysterious beauty for us - which did rather well in the #NationalOddityChampionships of 2022... we were so close, but had to concede victory to
The National Archives. But anyway, let's hear it ducks and for #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay !