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 A year of learning at Reading Museum 26 Sep 2025 A Year of Learning at Reading Museum: 2024–25 The 2024–25 academic year has been a vibrant and inspiring one for the Learning Team at Reading Museum. From bustling school visits Reflections from Another Year of Youth Panel 24 Sep 2025 As the start of term begins, it’s the start of a new year for the Museums Partnership Reading Youth Panel. With the Panellists embarking on a new series of projects Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal Loans 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. Reading to Australia - imprisoned 12,000 miles away from home 30 May 2025 Julian Scola shares his father's story, from arrest in Reading as an Italian 'enemy alien' during WWII to internment in Australia. 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. Romans in Reading: what you've told us so far! 15 Apr 2025 Reading Museum’s new project ‘Roman Britain - Reimagined in Reading’ is consulting a wide range of stakeholders. 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 »
A year of learning at Reading Museum 26 Sep 2025 A Year of Learning at Reading Museum: 2024–25 The 2024–25 academic year has been a vibrant and inspiring one for the Learning Team at Reading Museum. From bustling school visits
Reflections from Another Year of Youth Panel 24 Sep 2025 As the start of term begins, it’s the start of a new year for the Museums Partnership Reading Youth Panel. With the Panellists embarking on a new series of projects
Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal
Loans 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.
Reading to Australia - imprisoned 12,000 miles away from home 30 May 2025 Julian Scola shares his father's story, from arrest in Reading as an Italian 'enemy alien' during WWII to internment in Australia.
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.
Romans in Reading: what you've told us so far! 15 Apr 2025 Reading Museum’s new project ‘Roman Britain - Reimagined in Reading’ is consulting a wide range of stakeholders.
