Blog Join us in exploring Reading's history, our community and our objects. All Posts Collections Community Get involved Reading’s history Reading Abbey Things to do Apply Reading Museum at the V&A’s The Music Is Black exhibition 23 Apr 2026 Reading Museum is delighted to have loaned one of its most distinctive and thought‑provoking objects to the newly opened V&A East Museum for The Music Is Black: A British Story By Association - a new art commission for Reading Museum 12 Mar 2026 In this guest blog Martina Margetts explores Reading Museum’s important new art commission by metalsmith Adi Toch . This is a Contemporary Art Society commission supported by the Griffin Fund Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace. A Royal Miniature Mystery Solved: Huntley & Palmers and Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House 28 Nov 2025 Guest blogger Zoe Handy shares how her fascination for all things miniature solved a 100-year-old royal mystery from Reading Museum’s collection… What did the Romans introduce to Britain? 18 Nov 2025 This blog explores some of the interesting ideas and activities that Roman culture brought to the British Isles. Loan Box Curiosities: Stonehenge and Bronze Age Archaeology 28 Jul 2025 Welcome to the next instalment of our Loan Box Curiosities series. This time we’re going to look at two boxes, Stonehenge, and Bronze Age Archaeology. Loan Box Curiosities: Ancient Writing 24 Jul 2025 We have been offering our loan service to schools around Reading for over 100 years. We’re back again with another blog looking at Ancient writing. The People of Silchester 23 Jul 2025 We exclusively reveal research into human remains from Iron Age and Roman Silchester, including a man with Spanish heritage in late Iron Age Britain. Loan Box Curiosities: Roman Crafts and Industries 8 May 2025 Welcome to the next instalment in a series of blogs about our school loan boxes. This time round we’re looking at Roman crafts and industries. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Reading Museum at the V&A’s The Music Is Black exhibition 23 Apr 2026 Reading Museum is delighted to have loaned one of its most distinctive and thought‑provoking objects to the newly opened V&A East Museum for The Music Is Black: A British Story
By Association - a new art commission for Reading Museum 12 Mar 2026 In this guest blog Martina Margetts explores Reading Museum’s important new art commission by metalsmith Adi Toch . This is a Contemporary Art Society commission supported by the Griffin Fund
Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace.
A Royal Miniature Mystery Solved: Huntley & Palmers and Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House 28 Nov 2025 Guest blogger Zoe Handy shares how her fascination for all things miniature solved a 100-year-old royal mystery from Reading Museum’s collection…
What did the Romans introduce to Britain? 18 Nov 2025 This blog explores some of the interesting ideas and activities that Roman culture brought to the British Isles.
Loan Box Curiosities: Stonehenge and Bronze Age Archaeology 28 Jul 2025 Welcome to the next instalment of our Loan Box Curiosities series. This time we’re going to look at two boxes, Stonehenge, and Bronze Age Archaeology.
Loan Box Curiosities: Ancient Writing 24 Jul 2025 We have been offering our loan service to schools around Reading for over 100 years. We’re back again with another blog looking at Ancient writing.
The People of Silchester 23 Jul 2025 We exclusively reveal research into human remains from Iron Age and Roman Silchester, including a man with Spanish heritage in late Iron Age Britain.
Loan Box Curiosities: Roman Crafts and Industries 8 May 2025 Welcome to the next instalment in a series of blogs about our school loan boxes. This time round we’re looking at Roman crafts and industries.
