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10 May, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Everyone, big news: we are welcoming visitors back to our galleries from 18th May!

This is part of the joint reopening of Museums Partnership Reading (consisting of The MERL and @ReadingMuseum).

Head to our website to plan your free visit and make your booking today!
we were about to hit send when one of our colleagues messaged us to say that The MERL iPad password has been FOUND

truly an auspicious day for museums and iPads
and colleagues
and visitors
also if you like feel free to plan an extremely extravagant and/or lavish visit

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Good morning everyone.

Do you have #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons?

Do WE have #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons?

You bet we do. And if you have it, we gots quite the challenge for ya. A photo of The MERL logo recreated in Animal Crossing.
Across rural history, people have worn all kinds of fancy outfits. Because while you're cultivating the land, you may as well also cultivate a fantastic look, to dazzle your peers and harvests.

These are both smocks: a beautiful use of sound and cloth.

Economy!
We're the museum of the countryside™, and in our collections there are wardrobes upon wardrobes of cool rural garms.

In fact, here's an online exhibition we curated last year featuring some highlights.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online…
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now THIS is our kind of selfie stick. Black and white photo of an elderly male shepherd holding a lamb and a cane.
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