Join Reading Museum’s Brendan Carr and Matthew Williams to see the sites, and discover more as they share their historical knowledge on a linear walking tour between Reading Museum and The Museum of English Rural Life. The tour lasts about 2 hours and covers an easy distance of about 1 km. Part of Reading Walks Festival 2024. Where:

Join Reading Museum’s Brendan Carr and Matthew Williams to see the sites, and discover more as they share their historical knowledge on a linear walking tour between Reading Museum and The Museum of English Rural Life.

Brendan Carr of Reading Museum describes how their Happy Museum work raised the museum’s profile and helped it get involved in shaping the city’s future.

As part of Biscuit Town 200 (celebrating 200 years of biscuit history in Reading) and Heritage Open Days 2022, join Reading Museum’s Brendan Carr and Matthew Williams on a tour from Reading Museum to The MERL, highlighting the lasting legacy and influence of Huntley & Palmers throughout our town.

Brendan Carr, Community Engagement Curator at Reading Museum & Town Hall, shares his experience of attempting to combat contemporary social issues through engaging local people with social history, as part of Reading Museum’s Happy Museum project.

“Whenever these three areas of the town feature in the local news it always seems to be about something negative,” says Brendan Carr, Community Engagement Curator at Reading Museum. “We wanted to present an alternative narrative, reveal the hidden history of these areas and have some impact on the wellbeing of the people in those communities.

Brendan Carr wrote a great piece Can Social History Make us Happy (2015 Social History Curator’s Group Journal) about this and the museum’s earlier project Revealing Reading’s Hidden History.

Oct 24, 2013 · Brendan Carr is community engagement curator at the Museum of Reading: Before we hear from Adam Koszary, who will be telling us about his work with Reading’s Historic World Object Collection,...

Here project leader, Brendan Carr, gives an account of outcomes to date. Where’s Reading Heading? Over the past twenty years, listeners to commercial radio in Reading have developed an affectionate attachment to one particular jingle, which goes: