The Reading Public Museum was founded in 1904 as part of the Reading School District by Dr. Levi W. Mengel. With a comprehensive art and science museum, a planetarium and an arboretum, the museum ...

It is not an artefact pillaged by a Victorian grave-robber, but Sir Sydney Smirke’s astonishing round reading room, found in the very centre of the museum. Built in 1852 and based on Rome’s Pantheon, ...