Museum Studies at Uni of Reading

🎃 POV: it’s the zombie apocalypse, and you’re at The Museum of English Rural Life. Luckily, we have thousands of agricultural tools that sustained rural England for centuries. With some lateral thinking, they might be exactly what you need today. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2024/10/h…

@DrVerityBurke @DollyJorgensen @finnarne @g_westergaard @gmpetrick @MarieFojuth @mica_amy @Henry_McGhie

Paging @DollyJorgensen, @finnarne, @g_westergaard, @gmpetrick, @MarieFojuth, @mica_amy and the gang for inspiration…

Nerdy question: if you were to introduce students to one exhibition on #ClimateChange, what would it be and why? #envhums #museums

@DrVerityBurke @OliveFSmith Not about NH museums per se but @DrHG @FrankieHChurch and I co wrote an short piece aimed at undergrads to curatorial methods which might get them thinking about ways to approach. It has prompts #contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/crea…

@OliveFSmith Thanks for the encouragement. That’s one of the reasons I’m asking if anything like this currently exists - because it would be useful as a set text when I take students on site visits or support them in interdisciplinary/collections work! ♥️

Is anyone aware of any publications which outline how humanities researchers (including students) can approach natural history collections? Or is this an article I should be writing? #envhums #museums #naturalhistory

@BerksArchives What a lovely photograph. It's nice to know Friends of Redlands are carrying on Miss Chattaway's commitment to outdoor learning with their Sensory Garden project @UrbanToGarden

Is there anything more lovely than an Autumn leaf carpet? 🍂 Do you have childhood memories of playing in the leaves? These children from Redlands School, Reading, were photographed on a nature walk with their teacher, Miss Chattaway, c.1910 #HBAHEnvironment #AutumnMemories

@magnifyzoology Could we get an environmental/climate one?

Somehow this year is the 5th annual #museum30 - how did that happen?! Is there anything you’d want to see this year to celebrate?

@UniofReading @Dr_Gilbz Hi external partners have asked me whether this will be recorded as they can't make it on the day.

Climate change is affecting all of us - and we need to make sure climate education is accessible and inspiring, says @dr_gilbz. Sign up for our Climate Education Summit and share how you want climate education to improve: rdg.ac/ClimateEducati… #ClimateEdu #PlanetPartners

'The Imaginary Archaeology' Project is running today @archaeologyuk #FestivalofArchaeology. This is a purely hypothetical exploration of the site of the 1971 Reading Music Festival. It teaches desk based assessment and asks what happens before you dig. festival.archaeologyuk.org/events/imagina…

Listen to Professor @KatherineHarloe discuss 'Detoxifying the Classics' on BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Our friends at @readingmuseum have been working with Reading's Caribbean community to commemorate and celebrate #WindrushDay2021 and the enduring contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants to the UK’s cultural, social, and economic life readingmuseum.org.uk/explore/online…

@rhebamacha Thanks Rheba I look forward to finding out more about the project as it develops and if anything comes up I'll get in touch.

@rhebamacha Hi Rheba I've just been listening to your brilliant talk as part of the Classical Collections Network. I've just included your article in the reading for our first year module 'Presenting the Past' for the week on Classical Curatorship.

@readingmuseum @readinglibrary @amalexathorn thought this would interest you. Is there any connection to the local women you were researching?

Last December, an auction revealed a remarkable connection between Reading and the last Queen of Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona III. Below, join @ReadingLibrary's Katie Amos as she explores the life of Clara Herbert: one of the Queen's most loyal companions, and a Reading citizen.

We're all making tissue paper nests with t-shirts. Online museum packaging and storage workshop. Thanks to @CPlascow @UniRdg_ArtCol for the ingenuity.

Find out what @wetconservatrix has been up to @ColeZoology in our new blog about historic fluid collections as part of @ColeMM2019 natsca.blog/2021/03/04/we-…

Madison Johnson (@UniRdg_GES @UniRdg_PhD) uses a Festival of Britain horse brass as a starting point to talk about her PhD research into heavy horse preservation. This is part of the online exhibition #51Voices remembering the founding of @TheMERL in 1951 merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online…

Just had an amazing talk for my students from @TaraPirie about the work the team have been doing to move the Cole Museum of Zoology @ColeZoology to its new location @wetconservatrix @ACallaZoo collections.reading.ac.uk/cole-museum/

To bring you images of the Tapestry at higher resolution than ever, we worked with @SmartFrame to build an online platform that enables you to zoom in! So that you can see the Tapestry right down to the smallest stitch.

You asked. You waited. You waited a little more. And now, we have finally delivered. Introducing a new range of absolute unit t-shirts for the first time since 2018. Featuring the original 2018 design and our 'Please Keep One Absolute Unit Apart'. Available now, buy online!