Ashmolean Museum
Britain’s oldest public museum, with art and archaeology from across the world.
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is the University of Oxford's museum and Britain's first public museum. It grew from the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave the university in 1677, first shown in a purpose-built home on Broad Street from 1683, before moving to C. R. Cockerell's neoclassical building on Beaumont Street, completed in 1845.
A major redevelopment reopened the museum in 2009 with light-filled modern galleries arranged around the theme of cultures meeting and influencing each other. Its collections range from Egyptian and Minoan antiquities and Anglo-Saxon treasures to Renaissance drawings, Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Asian art, and general admission is free.
Highlights
- Alfred Jewel and Anglo-Saxon treasures
- Egyptian and Nubian galleries
- Renaissance drawings and Western art collection
- Cast Gallery of classical sculpture
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