Gift Ideas

Here is a small selection of our most popular gifts available to buy in Mosaic, the Museum Gift shop. For more information on other merchandise please call 0118 9399800 during opening hours or email your enquiry to shop@readingmuseum.org.uk.

Bayeux Tapestry Facsimile Poster

• £7.99inc.VAT (+p&p)
• 986x11 cm
• Soft-back

Our best selling Bayeux Tapestry product is a pull out version of the tapestry in colour with text in English French and German.

The Story of Reading

• £9.95 (+p&p)
• 20 x 14 cm
• 192 pages with many b/w images
• soft-back
• 1999 edition

Daphne Phillips has lived in Reading for more than 40 years. Her book, written with both authority and vitality, is a welcome source of information and pleasure for residents and visitors alike and covers Caversham, Tilehurst, Calcot, Earley and Woodley.

The Bayeux Tapestry Embroiders Story

• £13.95 (+p&p)
• 30 x 21 cm
• 112 pages (77 in full colour, 35 printed text)
• soft-back
• 1999 edition

The author Jan Messent presents an artist/embroiderer's approach to the so-called 'mysteries and mistakes' in the design. Each page contains illustrations based on the Bayeux Tapestry, re-constructions of the creative process and other materials of Anglo Saxon and early Norman origin.

Silchester Horse Set

• £64.99 inc VAT(+p&p)
• Brooch alone: £35
• Earrings alone: £29.99

This exclusive set is based on our Silchester Horse on display in the Museum. The triskeles recall late Iron Age art and the figure probably dates from the 1st century AD. It was originally attached to something else, it may possibly have been a handle from a ritual vessel of some kind. (Earrings are for pierced ears only)

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