Dinton Pastures Country Park’s lakes, rivers, meadows and wooded areas span just over 335 acres of what was once part of the Great Forest of Windsor. Past gravel extraction has created lakes and islands frequented by both local wildlife and...

With origins dating back to the 12th Century, St Nicholas boasts a tower of Berkshire brick built in 1612. Inside, the Elizabethan chancel screen carries the Royal Arms, and the Jacobean pulpit once played host to Reading-born William Laud who...

Founded in 1997, the heritage centre is focussed on the rich and interesting developments in medical science that have taken place not only in this hospital, but across the region throughout the ages. The collection is large and contains...

Housed in the Old Laundry (1881) of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the Centre preserves and displays items of historical medical interest particularly those with a local connection. The collection includes many hundreds of artefacts and photographs relating to medicine,...

Charvill Country Park, in Wokingham, covers an area of some seventy five hectares of former industrial gravel pits that have been transformed into an area of outstanding natural beauty. Today the area comprises of lakes, grassland, scrub, woodlands and very...

The Cole Museum of Zoology contains some 3500 specimens of which about 400 are on display at any one time. The collection was mainly built between 1907 and 1939 and represents one of the most interesting and extensive zoological...

Located next to the banks of the River Kennet in the very centre of Reading, this museum tells the interesting story of the two rivers that run through this community, the Kennet and the Thames. Situated within the Screen...

Berkshire’s dynamic contribution to aviation history is graphically recaptured at the Woodley Museum. Run as a charitable trust, the museum is at the historic site of Woodley airfield, near Reading.

This museum was founded by the University of Reading in 1951 and offers an insight into the lives of people who live and have lived in the English countryside. A great deal of the exhibition is dedicated to agriculture...

The Berkshire Museum of Freemasonry is housed within a beautiful historic structure at the heart of Sindlesham. It is one of the most important buildings in the community, and has for hundreds of years been the site at which...

The museum tells the story of Reading’s two rivers, the Thames and the Kennet and occupies two former industrial buildings. The centrepiece is Dunton’s gypsy caravan which was built on the Kennet banks and is housed in the Screen House...

The first professor of classics at the university, Percy Ure, started this collection in the early 1920s, and since that time it has grown into one of the most important of its types in the region. The collection mainly...