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.

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 ...

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 ...

SIR ARTHUR EVANS has presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of which he was keeper for a period of twenty-five years ending in 1908, his unique collection of Minoan sealstones and gems ...

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 ...

In the event he plumps for the oldest of them all, the Ashmolean in Oxford. But rather than the Alfred Jewel, an item that seems to represent something essential in the English psyche, the museum ...

Whatever you choose, it is that feeling which makes you say ‘my home’. The Ashmolean, founded in 1683, was probably the world’s first public museum. It is undergoing redevelopment and in ...

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 ...

And on a blustery evening last week, a recreation of those loaves graced a banquet at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, where the British chef Heston Blumenthal staged a meal inspired by ...