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Main for Reading Museum

  • Your Visit
    • Opening times
    • How to get here
    • What to see
    • Café
    • Donate
    • Access
    • Information for autistic visitors
    • Families
    • Group Visits
    • Abbey Quarter
    • St James' Way
    • The Great West Way
    • Your views
    • Our building history
    • Essential building maintenance
  • Collections
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Britain's Bayeux Tapestry
    • Natural History
    • Reading's History
    • World
    • Online Collections
    • Collections Enquiries
    • Image Enquiries
  • What's on
  • Shop
  • Blog
  • Online exhibitions
    • Reading's DIGITAL Revolution
    • Windrush Day
    • Where Do We Go From Here? - Audio Trail
    • Arctic Mirage: Words and Music
    • Oxford Road Stories
    • Oxford Road: Lifespring Stories
    • Reading's 'Little Italy'
    • Huntley & Palmers history
    • Reading Festival 1971
    • Roman Silchester: A Virtual Exhibition
    • Reading Abbey's most famous manuscript
    • VE Day
    • Oh Beautiful World
    • Animal World Art
    • Art Stories online exhibition
  • Schools
    • Looking for free sessions?
    • Sessions in Museum
    • Virtual Sessions
    • School Loan Boxes
    • Information for teachers
    • Offers for Home Educated Children
    • Resources
  • Get involved
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Memory Boxes
    • Sponsor and venue hire
    • Adopt an Object
    • Friends of Reading Museum
    • Museum on Wheels
    • Youth Panel
    • Museum projects
    • Our Green Stories
    • Museum of Sanctuary
    • Roman Britain Reimagined in Reading
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Session Leader Favourites: Victorian Child at Work

21 May 2018

As the still (relatively) new Abbey Learning Officer at Reading Museum, I have been following around the Session Leaders to find out more about our Sessions and why they love

Five Fantastic things in our Loan Boxes

5 Apr 2018

Our Loans service began in 1911 and is still incredibly popular with schools today, covering all aspects of the curriculum.

Strictly school: life in a Victorian classroom

8 Mar 2018

To peer around the door of a Victorian schoolroom is to encounter another world.

All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Father Christmas

14 Dec 2017

Recently Reading Museum has been visited by someone rather special. Father Christmas took the time out of his busy schedule to speak with us!

From Quern to Computer

7 Aug 2017

Flour milling evolved from hand-powered querns in 6,000 BC, to massive computer-driven roller mills of the present day.

Paddington, a Reading VIB (very important bear)

1 Aug 2017

Have you seen any bears roaming around in Reading recently? Find out how Paddington inspired our annual teddy bear's picnic.

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