 Reading A to Z
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5 December 2009 to 18 April 2010
An A to Z of our fascinating town in objects and artworks selected from the Museum’s collection.
The exhibition covers a thousand years of Reading’s history, from Abbey and Austen to Zaandam and Zinzan. Explore the people, places and products that have influenced how Reading is today.
What would you include? What have we left out? Come and share your own ideas!
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Eighty - 80 years of Reading Guild of Artists
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09 January 2010 to 21 March 2010
The RGA celebrates its 80th birthday with an exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, illustrations, textiles, ceramics, digital work and sculpture.
Come and add your messages to the balloon installation, and follow the timeline to see how art and attitudes have changed over the years.
Find out more about the series of linked lunchtime talks on our diary pages.
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Coming Soon...The Life and Times of Paddington Bear™
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27 March – 4 July 2010
Celebrating the famous bear from Darkest Peru and his creator, Michael Bond, who spent his childhood in Reading. This exhibition tells the story from the very first book A Bear Called Paddington, published in 1958, to the most recent title in the series Paddington: Here and Now, published in 2008 - exactly fifty years later.
Discover how the idea for Paddington began on Christmas Eve 1956 and how various illustrators, from Peggy Fortnum to R.W. Alley, have developed the way he looks in books and on the television.
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