The Museum of English Rural Life
Museums & Science Centres · Reading, Berkshire
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entrySchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Museum of English Rural Life explores the history of rural England and the people whose lives and work define it. The galleries feature exhibitions on countryside themes including dairying research, the Women's Land Army, and rural experiences. A year-round Rat Trail invites visitors to find 12 rats hidden throughout the galleries, each wearing handmade costumes representing different countryside childhoods. The museum also has a café, garden, shop, and library with archives.
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.
- Plasters
- Portable phone charger
- Travel games
- Hair bobbles
- Bum bag
- Kids' headphones
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