Exhibitions

  All Boxed Up and Ready To Go

For nearly 100 years museum objects have been sent into classrooms all over Reading and Berkshire. This exhibition gives you a chance to see and handle some of the spectacular objects that have inspired children and their teachers. Examine our shiny, up to date boxes designed to protect and display our artefacts. Can you identify some of our more mysterious objects?

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

  Modern British Masters: Drawings and Paintings on Paper

Treasures from the Museum's collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Enjoy a wide range of works by leading British artists, from wartime portraits to 1960s landscapes and 1990s abstracts. See how artists have explored the properties of pastel, charcoal, collage and new types of paint to make great drawings and paintings. Artists include Charles Ginner, Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, John Piper, Keith Vaughan, Elizabeth Blackadder and Alan Davie. The exhibitions includes gifts from the Contemporary Art Society and works acquired with help from The Art Fund and Reading Foundation of Art.

  The Turbine House at Blake's Lock

The Turbine House at Blake's Lock is open daily from 10.00 - 6.00 between Easter and September. There are a range of exhibitions in the Turbine House over the summer by local groups and artists.

Paul Ryan
23 May - 6 June

Thames Valley University Students
22 June - 30 June

Real Time
7 September - 28 September