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Themes and Strengths

The University of Reading’s museums and collections are a fantastic resource for research, learning, discovery and enjoyment. These pages highlight our most significant areas of collecting, relate the stories of how we acquired them, and explain how they are being used in research within and beyond the University of Reading.

Business and the Workplace

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Childhood

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Farming, Food and Health

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Landscape, Environment and Rural Life

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Stage set for Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

Literature, Drama and Film

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Exterior of Great Western Railway station, Reading, c. 1880s-1930s, Dann-Lewis Collection

Local History of Reading

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Modern History

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Close up of staff wearing purple gloves looking at ceramics in the mezzanine learning space in the open store.

Museum and Heritage Studies

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Natural History

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The Visual

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