Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
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The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is the world's first university 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. The museum reopened in 2009 after a major redevelopment and new galleries focusing on Egypt and Nubia were also unveiled. The Sackler Library, opened in 2001 has allowed an expansion of the book collection on classical civilization, archaeology and art history. In 2000, the Chinese Picture Gallery opened, the only museum gallery in Britain devoted to Chinese paintings.
Postcode - OX1 2PH
Ashmolean Museum
51.755529,
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OX1 2PH
Museums
Ashmolean Museum Books and Gifts
The Ashmolean Museum: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Time
Ashmolean: Britain's First Museum
Ashmolean, the: Floor By Floor
Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ancient Egypt and Nubia in the Ashmoleum Museum (Ashmolean: the Coll
Baroque and Later Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum
Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the
Building the New Ashmolean: Drawings and Prints by Weimin He
