page_title: Reading Museum
section_title: The Green Space
hierarchical_section_title: Reading Museum / Principal galleries / The Green Space
caption_attribution_description: English: The Green Space Gallery at the Museum of Reading
context_page_description: Reading Museum is a museum of the history of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire, and the surrounding area. It is accommodated within Reading Town Hall, and contains galleries describing the history of Reading and its related industries, a gallery of artefacts discovered during the excavations of Calleva Atrebatum, a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, finds relating to Reading Abbey and an art collection.
context_section_description: The Gallery explains the geology and natural history of the Reading area through a large display of specimens. Exploring the history of the Reading area from 400 million years ago to the present day, it explains what was in the area before people existed and how Reading's landscape and environment has developed and been influenced by human activity since the Stone Age.
  The Gallery also shows the animals and plants living in the Reading area today. Highlights in the display include a complete Iron Age dog skeleton discovered and excavated at Blewburton hillfort; and a royal red deer stag which was donated to the Museum by George V from the royal herd at Windsor Great Park.
caption: The Green Space Gallery
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