The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)
Indoors and outdoors, the MERL offers those of all ages and abilities opportunities to learn about the past and - as crucially - to think about and plan for the future. Over only a few years, the small but focused MERL team has developed a rich programme, which continues to expand and to develop through keen self-examination and wider consultation. There are lessons from the past and lessons for what is to come, and the MERL experience goes far beyond what might initially be expected from a museum of rural life. A broad range of subjects comes to life in the learning programmes - literally so in the gardening sessions.
