The Ashmolean – the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology – was founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683, when it became the world’s first public museum. If over three centuries of history ...

Have you visited the new Ashmolean Museum in Oxford yet? Summer will be a great time to visit. The museum’s education team has lots of events for adults and children planned — July is ...

The Egyptian life after death gallery at the Ashmolean has some new displays The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has the best collection outside Cairo of artefacts from the earliest years of Ancient Egypt.

Wu Guanzhong's Wuxu and Lake Tai (1973) is part of the Sullivan collection The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has announced the acquisition of one of the world's most significant collections of modern ...

THE celebrations, arranged by Dr. R. T. Gunther, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Old Ashmolean on May 21, 1683, brought together a large gathering, which included ...

A DECADE after the Ashmolean Museum’s stunning £61m revamp, the attraction is to open seven days a week. For years tourists and local visitors have been disappointed that the Beaumont Street ...

Over the past months, unseen, like some ripening truffle, in the narrow space between Pusey Lane and St Giles in Oxford the new Ashmolean has doubled in size. Now it is ready for all to enjoy.

The Indian government is requesting the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return a bronze idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, made in Tamil Nadu in the 15th century. It appears that the sculpture was ...

The Ashmolean’s six new galleries dedicated to the age of the pharaohs show off their treasures to stirring effect, says Richard Dorment. When the Ashmolean Museum re-opened two years ago after ...

The funeral of Tiberius Claudius Abascantianus was re-enacted at the Ashmolean to show visitors how the ancient tomb would have been used. The ash chest of Abascantianus himself was used in the ...

Right at the entrance to the Ashmolean's newly refurbished and expanded Egyptian galleries you know you are in a different place. There stand two giant statues of the fertility god Min ...

The collection at Oxford University's Ashmolean features 200 letters, many of them illustrated with cartoons. They were found in an "old chest of drawers" by Mrs Gaskell's great grand-daughter ...