Ashmolean Museum
Oxford · founded 1683
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the establishment of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1661 by the University of Basel.
- Works in the Ashmolean Museum collection
- 1 million+Works in the Ashmolean Museum collection
- Visitors a year
- 0.9MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1683Founded
What to see
Didache
50.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5101
In the museum’s collection.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3522
100.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Papyrus 77
In the museum’s collection.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Alfred Jewel
900.
At the museum · Photo by Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Scorpion Macehead
In the museum’s collection.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.ashmolean.org before you travel.
Getting there
Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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