🌱Does your sprout have a green thumb?

🔎Let's find out!

🌿This week our Green Explorers are focusing on planting!

🔥With snacks of course, and the session cooking round the campfire.

✏️Book your spot now! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/green-ex…

Tattoo ideas yesterday:
💕no regrets
🙏 just breathe

Tattoo ideas today:
👁️I S L E E P B U T M Y H E A R T W A K E T H 👁️

.The Museum of English Rural Life is England’s most extensive museum dedicated to farming, food, craft and rural life. bit.ly/3UeqoHL

Here, you’ll discover stories that surprise and move you, and challenge you to think about rural England, past and present, in different ways.

“I had no idea Reading has so much to offer!”
'A real treat!'
- satisfied attendees

'So nice to see all these new faces! 5 stars'
- Ghost of King Henry I*

Book now for our Abbey Quarter tours, every Sat at 11am!
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*not a ghost tour! as far as we know...

FYI researchers and online collections snoopers 👀.

The MERL's collections websites are still up and running, but some of our sister collections are down for the time being 👇

It's #InternationalBatAppreciationDay so here's the story of a time we found a bat in The Museum of English Rural Life archive (illegal) so we gave him a library card (legal)

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2019/02/f…

Pop down to Slough Train Station on Mon 29 April from 5.30pm for short piece of theatre about Station Jim! Local communities & performers have worked with The Museum of English Rural Life & Reading Museum supported by Arts Council England, London & RABBLE Theatre (Formerly RBL Theatre Co.) GWR Slough & Windsor Railway Society Slough Writers Slough Music Service

Dress code for April at the museum is: Cosy Chic.

While our building undergoes essential maintenance, the heating may be turned off in the galleries over the next few weeks.

If you’re planning a visit, make sure to wrap up warm in your finest statement jumper (like our model🐏)

The The Museum of English Rural Life is England’s most extensive museum dedicated to farming, food, craft and rural life. The innovative galleries contain an astonishing array of items telling this important part of history...
greatwestway.co.uk/see-and-do/mus…

What do giants, detectives and songbirds have in common? 🤔

They're all part of our free learning resource packs available to (very) early-career scientists and their parents and teachers this #BritishScienceWeek !

Learn more: merl.reading.ac.uk/learn/schools-… #BSW24

🪺Are you ready for The MERL Springtime Egg Hunt? . Come see us during the Easter holidays and see if you can find them all!

Please be aware: we'll be closed over Easter weekend, from 28 Mar-2 April.

Learn more about Easter holidays at The MERL: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/easter-h…