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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. After 35 years as a medical doctor he started a second career as an antiquarian.
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...
In the Hampshire countryside you might not expect to stumble across towering walls of a Roman town. Find out how it was rediscovered by Victorian ...
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.
