Ashmolean museum

Originally, the Ashmolean Museum was built to house Elias Ashmole's collection of curiosities, in 1683, on Broad Street. In 1894, the museum was moved to Beaumont Street in a classical style building, designed by Charles Cockerell. Some of the highlights of the museum are Uccello's "The Hunt in the Forest" (c. 1465–1470), Piero di Cosimo's "The Forest Fire" (c. 1505), Camille Pissarro's "View from my Window" (1886-88) and Namikawa Yasuyuki's "Vase with waterfall over rocks" (1910-15). What…

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View large on black, The atrium of the recently reopened Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

Admission free. Discover half a million years of art and archaeology, from Egyptian mummies to modern art, at the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford was founded in 1683, Ashmolean Museum is the oldest public museum in the World and has one of the most important Arts and archaeology collections, Ashmolean Museum received a £61 Million interior renovation which expanded the Museum into 39 new galleries

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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