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 ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which holds the largest group of Raphael drawings in the world, is set to stage an exhibition of 125 drawings attributed to the Old Master, opening on June 1. Not since ...

Planning a visit to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum? In this video, we guide you through some of the most fascinating ...

A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...

In this photo provided by Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford on Monday, June 10, 2024, a view of a 500-year-old bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar. Oxford University has agreed to return a 500-year ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is the oldest publicly accessible museum in the world, and it’s now home to one of the world’s most popular and in-your-face artists: Jeff Koons. There are only 17 items in ...

Jeff Koons is back. The American artist and art commerce kingpin has just opened his latest show at Oxford’s Ashmolean, the world’s oldest public museum. Seventeen significant works – 14 of which make ...

It was the outside of the Ashmolean that attracted me first. For a year in the late 1950s, as a junior research fellow at Balliol, I had rooms that looked out across St Giles. Every morning as I ...

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