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The Museum of English Rural Life was founded in 1951. During and after the Second World War the English countryside experienced many significant social and technological changes. Older ways of doing things were swept aside. In 1951 the University of Reading established our museum to help record these rural changes. We grew to cover many themes ...
The Museum of English Rural Life is owned and managed by the University of Reading. It was established by academics in the Department of Agriculture in 1951 to capture and record the rapidly ...
Since 1951, The Museum of English Rural Life has collected objects, archives, books, journals, photographs and films that tell the story of food and farming in England. Its collection – which includes over 4 kilometres of archives, 1 million photographs and 80,000 books – has been officially Designated as outstanding by Arts Council England.
The Rural Museums Network is run by a dedicated committee of volunteers who support members, organise events and initiate projects. The committee are always keen to ensure that they represent the network as a whole – in terms of the types of museums and individuals involved, the geographical spread and the various roles we have within our ...
Closed Mondays; Open Tuesday to Friday 9am to 5pm & Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Session Information. The reading room is open Tuesday to Friday, from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Booking is required. The MERL (including, shop, café, garden and reading room) is closed on bank holidays and on some University of Reading closures days at Christmas and ...
- Museum Of English Rural Life 6 Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, Berkshire
- merl@reading.ac.uk
The Museum of English Rural Life, also known as The MERL, is a museum, library and archive dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the countryside in England. The museum is run by the University of Reading, and is situated in Redlands Road to the rear of the institution's London Road Campus near to the centre of Reading in ...
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The archives of The Museum of English Rural Life are a leading resource for the study of the history of British agriculture, the countryside and rural society. The collections range from papers of individual farms and large estates through the institutional archives of major countryside organisations to the trade records of agricultural firms ...
