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It’s hard to believe that we’re headed into July already, but the good news is that the summer is already off to a very hot start… Only about 6 weeks into its run here at The Museum, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™: Secrets of the Sewer™ has proven to be a popular summer exhibition. 

You can fight crime, take down the villains and then enjoy a slice pizza, all with the help of your friends. Teamwork and turtles go together. The lights are low and the walls are painted gray to help give that sewer feel.

Summer camp. It conjures up images of sunburn, mosquito bites, giggling with friends, and endless rounds of our favorite childhood games.

With approximately 1,000 oil paintings in the collection, many of which date to the nineteenth century or earlier, The Museum is charged with the duty of preserving and caring for works of art.

On Sunday, May 28 over 500 two-legged visitors, many with their four-legged companions, attended the fourth annual “Dogs & Brews” to kick off summer in the Arboretum of The Museum.

RPM’s current exhibition, Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival, on view in the ground floor Works on Paper Gallery, features more than sixty prints from the collection of over 10,000 works on paper from the permanent collection.

Here at The Reading Public Museum, not only do we host traveling exhibitions, we tour exhibitions from our collection as well! Take a sneak peek at our exhibition, Call to Duty: World War Posters with a wonderful video created by The Haggin Museum, where the exhibition is currently displayed.

We all have expectations of what the "lovely month of May" is supposed to be. Alas, alack,  what to do on that Sunday afternoon when May does not measure up?

We have plenty of old things. Relics, rarities, oddities. A painting by French artist Edgar Degas. A 1914 automobile built in Reading, one of only a few known to exist. The driver’s license of one of the Three Stooges.

A bronze plaque in memory of Dr. Levi W. Mengel, founder of the Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, was unveiled and dedicated yesterday afternoon in the foyer of the museum before a group of 100 persons.