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It is difficult to imagine Reading today being in the midst of conflict, but it was during the English Civil War
Lots of groups are being inspired to explore the abbey and its past in creative ways since the Ruins opened on 16 June 2018.
Discover the story of Reading Museum's first curator. In 1879 after 35 years as a medical doctor he started a second career as antiquarian and...
Reading Abbey is perhaps best known as being the burial place of King Henry I. On the 800th anniversary of the foundation of Reading Abbey in 1921...
Sandra Gough is a fantastic Session Leader who has worked at Reading Museum for a long time. She loves delivering many of Reading Museum’s...
The Roman town of Calleva, near Silchester, was abandoned after the Roman period and the site was never developed. The majority of objects in the ...
In a further boost to Reading’s cultural renaissance, MERL and Reading Museum are working together as Museums Partnership Reading until 2022.
As part of our project Reading Abbey Revealed, we are bringing history to life by making a medieval herb garden at the recently restored Abbey...
Over the past year we have created a new digital model of Reading Abbey to provide images of how the abbey looked in its heyday.
