Upcoming Events

The Southeast Branch of the Library is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:0 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

The Reading Public Library Children's Library is open 9:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.. Thursday and Friday. 9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Saturday

The Reading Public Library is open 9:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.. Thursday and Friday. 9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Saturday

Visit the exhibition where Art & Science meet! Dinosaurs in Motion blends science, art, and innovation with 12 magnificent, fully interactive, recycled life-size metal dinosaur sculptures created by North Carolina artist John Payne.

Journey through Payne's four studios, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master, to showcase how technological, artistic, and scientific advances all contributed to the creation of these amazing sculptures. 

The newly installed gallery features nearly 100 works including paintings, sculptures, ritual objects, ceramics, manuscripts, carvings, metalwork, and decorative arts that entered The Museum’s collection as early as the 19-teens through as recently as the 2000s. Some works were purchased by The Museum while others came as gifts from Katharine and William A. Arnold, Susan Keim Montgomery, and Mrs. M. P. V. R. Biddle, among others.

Pack your scarf and mittens for a journey northward to the land of the midnight sun: Scandinavia. This exhibition features works from RPM’s collection from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. Nearly thirty paintings, sculpture, textiles, etchings, photographs, jewelry, and decorative arts examples and posters will be featured in the exhibition. Portraits, stunning views of fjords and harbors, and the Aurora Borealis “northern lights” are just some of the subjects of the works of art. Artists such as Frits Thaulow (1847 – 1906), Anders Zorn (1860 – 1920), Frants Didrik Boe (1820 – 1891), and Hans Andreas Dahl (1849 – 1937), among others, will be included in the exhibition, which is on view in the Meinig Family Gallery.

Historically, the American political poster has been sorely neglected as an art form and has played a minor cultural role, despite its effectiveness in conveying a political message to millions of voters often through the skillful use of visual communication. Sign of the Times, which features 50 posters from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, has made every effort to bring the alluring, eye-popping political graphics to the forefront and positions the “great American political poster” as art.

Monet makes his debut in Reading!

This extraordinary exhibition, drawn mostly from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the nineteenth century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

Dr. Brady, a world-renowned radiation oncologist from Philadelphia, was a generous friend of The Museum and an avid supporter of the arts. Over a fifteen year period, Dr. Brady generously donated more than 100 works of art to the Reading Public Museum ranging from ancient artifacts, to North American Indian objects, to contemporary painting and sculpture. This exhibition brings together a group of eighteen recent gifs of 20th century art from Dr. Luther W. Brady, M.D.

Come relax at The Neag Planetarium each week as you participate in RPM’s new yoga program. The series is FREE – with a suggested donation of $5.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. *

Series 1 - October 10 – December 12, 2018

Series 2 - January 9 – March 13, 2019

The Southeast Branch of the Library is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:0 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

The Northeast Branch Library is open 9:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

The Reading Public Library Children's Library is open 9:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.. Thursday and Friday. 9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Saturday

The Reading Public Library is open 9:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.. Thursday and Friday. 9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Saturday

Enjoy a day of learning while having fun at The Museum with your little one. A variety of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) based topics will be explored each month. Programs run 9:30–11:30 a.m.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.*

October 25 - Mythical Creatures

November 15 - Colorful, Dazzling, LIGHTS

December 13 - Digging Dinos

Encourage your child's curiosity for the world around them with programs about nature. Hands-on activities, games, and stories fill this 1 hour, content rich natural science program. Examine mounted specimens, eggs, nests, bones, and more! A craft related to the topicof the day completes each lesson. For children ages 3-5, $5. per program.

Programs held at the Angora Fruit Farm or Bingaman Nature Center, please check each month to ensure location.

Visit the exhibition where Art & Science meet! Dinosaurs in Motion blends science, art, and innovation with 12 magnificent, fully interactive, recycled life-size metal dinosaur sculptures created by North Carolina artist John Payne.

Journey through Payne's four studios, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master, to showcase how technological, artistic, and scientific advances all contributed to the creation of these amazing sculptures. 

The newly installed gallery features nearly 100 works including paintings, sculptures, ritual objects, ceramics, manuscripts, carvings, metalwork, and decorative arts that entered The Museum’s collection as early as the 19-teens through as recently as the 2000s. Some works were purchased by The Museum while others came as gifts from Katharine and William A. Arnold, Susan Keim Montgomery, and Mrs. M. P. V. R. Biddle, among others.

Pack your scarf and mittens for a journey northward to the land of the midnight sun: Scandinavia. This exhibition features works from RPM’s collection from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. Nearly thirty paintings, sculpture, textiles, etchings, photographs, jewelry, and decorative arts examples and posters will be featured in the exhibition. Portraits, stunning views of fjords and harbors, and the Aurora Borealis “northern lights” are just some of the subjects of the works of art. Artists such as Frits Thaulow (1847 – 1906), Anders Zorn (1860 – 1920), Frants Didrik Boe (1820 – 1891), and Hans Andreas Dahl (1849 – 1937), among others, will be included in the exhibition, which is on view in the Meinig Family Gallery.

Historically, the American political poster has been sorely neglected as an art form and has played a minor cultural role, despite its effectiveness in conveying a political message to millions of voters often through the skillful use of visual communication. Sign of the Times, which features 50 posters from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, has made every effort to bring the alluring, eye-popping political graphics to the forefront and positions the “great American political poster” as art.