Reading Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Reading, Berkshire
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entrySchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No dedicated car park; three Blue Badge spaces at the front of the building; nearby public car parks include Reading Station and Queen's Road.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Reading Museum holds 10 hands-on, accessible and family friendly galleries spread across art, archaeology, history and natural history. The collections include Britain's Bayeux Tapestry, 200 years of biscuit history in the Huntley & Palmers Gallery, and material on Reading's historic Abbey Quarter and Jane Austen's school. The museum offers guided tours of the Bayeux Tapestry and Reading Abbey. Admission is free.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Travel sickness bands
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- I-spy book
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Backseat organiser
- Lunch boxes
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