Anna Jones
Programme Manager (Museums Partnership Reading)
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: a.jones6@reading.ac.uk
Responsibilities
Anna is responsible for the delivery of the Museums Partnership Reading programme.
Museums Partnership Reading (MPR) is a consortium of Reading’s two leading museums: The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum, a unique university and local authority partnership and is funded as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
Partnership activity is based on collaborative programming, sharing skills and resources to maximise collections expertise, community and volunteer engagement and digital innovation.
The work is shaped by a commitment to cultural renewal and an understanding of the role of heritage in placemaking, and from 2023 the MPR programme extended to partnerships and engagement in neighbouring Slough.
In 2024, Anna won the inaugural University of Reading Professional Services award for her contribution to helping the University pursue one of its four guiding principles: Engaged University.
The awards celebrate resourceful, responsible and respectful work, and Anna was recognised for ‘making an impact beyond our campuses, including with her Museums on Wheels engagement work at Southcote and Whitley Libraries.’
Anna has also delivered a two-year programme of cultural activity on behalf of MPR for Reading’s High Street Heritage Action Zone. This involved creating opportunities with local artists for engagement activities and events to celebrate the history of the high street, document people’s live histories, and explore the importance of the high street to local communities.