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Our Green Stories: Local to Global walking tour

Reading Walks Festival 2025

Join Reading Museum’s Angela Houghton to look for urban nature and explore the links between the town’s history and impact on the wider world.

Type of walk
Learn something new on a guided tour -  less walking/more talking

More detail
Reading Museum and the MERL have been exploring climate change, sustainability and biodiversity loss through Our Green Stories.
Join Reading Museum’s Angela Houghton to look for urban nature and explore the links between the town’s history and impact on the wider world. Following this we’re hoping to make a self-guided ‘Green Stories’ walking tour between the museums so this will be a test of our ideas – tell us what you think afterwards!
Both museums have cafes, shops and toilets.

Walk length / difficulty / accessibility
1.5km, approx. 1.5 hours / Easy  / 

Ticket price
£10

About the walk leader
Angela has a lifelong interest in wildlife and the environment and has been curator of natural history at Reading Museum for 20 years.