Welcome | Ashmolean Museum
WELCOME. Open every day, 10am–5pm. Plan your visit, become a Member, donate, or visit our Online Shop. The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Our world famous collections range from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art, telling human stories across cultures and across time.
Plan Your Visit - Ashmolean Museum
The Museum is open every day, 10am–5pm. Entry is FREE, but pre-booking is recommended to guarantee entry. Address. Beaumont Street. Oxford. Oxfordshire. OX1 2PH. Phone. 01865 278000.
COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS - Ashmolean Museum
Enjoy the Museum and be inspired by our collections, from home. Download colouring pages, try out our online jigsaw puzzles, explore our Treasures, and enjoy stories about the collections. A selection of the Ashmolean Museum's highlight objects, selected by our curators. There are also more than 120,000 object records available to browse in our ...
INTRODUCING THE COLLECTIONS - Ashmolean Museum
The founding collection of the Ashmolean was assembled in the early 1600s by the Tradescant family from items collected from around the globe. The collection contained treasures such as the ‘mantle’ (actually a wall hanging) of Pocahontas's father Powhatan, and the stuffed body of a dodo. A visitor to this original museum commented that ...
ANTIQUITIES - Ashmolean Museum
ANTIQUITIES. The Department of Antiquities contains internationally renowned archaeological collections with particular strengths in Prehistoric Europe, the Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt and Sudan, Minoan Aegean, Mycenaean and Classical Greece, Ancient Cyprus, the Roman world and Medieval and later Europe. We also hold the Museum's Founding ...
EXHIBITIONS - Ashmolean Museum
JOIN AS A MEMBER. Join today for priority booking, unlimited free exhibition entry, preview days & much more. Membership gives you unlimited free access to exhibitions, exclusive online events, members-only previews and curator-led events, a members’ magazine sent to your door, as well as discounts across our shop, restaurant and café.
FLOOR GUIDE - Ashmolean Museum
THIRD FLOOR. The Ashmolean’s collection of 19th- to 21st-century art is extensive and is particularly strong in some areas such as the Pre-Raphaelites, Pissarro and Sickert. VIEW GALLERIES. Explore the floors of the Ashmolean Museum, and discover every gallery.
HISTORY OF THE ASHMOLEAN
The Ashmolean came into existence in 1682, when the wealthy antiquary Elias Ashmole gifted his collection to the University. It opened as Britain’s first public museum, and the world’s first university museum, in 1683. Though the collection has evolved considerably, the founding principle remains: that knowledge of humanity across cultures ...
FOUNDING COLLECTIONS - Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean holds part of the founding collection gifted by Elias Ashmole to the University of Oxford in 1677. It consists of ethnographic objects from Asia, Africa and the Americas and a significant collection of European material, especially garments, utensils and intricately carved materials. Most was collected during the 17th century by ...
GALLERY TOURS - Ashmolean Museum
Tours take around 45 minutes to one hour. From the story of King Alfred and Islamic arts to Byzantium and Greek vases, get closer to some amazing objects and their stories. Meet in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery, ground floor. November. Sat 2 Nov. 11am–12pm. Highlights of the Ashmolean. Mon 4 Nov. 1–1.45pm.