Reporting from Oxford, England — The words “musty” and “fusty” are often trotted out to describe much about Oxford, and not always derogatorily. Visitors who flock to this college town ...

The Ashmolean's summer exhibition displays objects from ancient Egypt's Amarna Period (about 1350–1330 BC) with material from the archives of Oxford's Griffith Institute, ...

The great good manners of the new Ashmolean is its invisibility from the front of the Grade I listed building by the classical architect Charles Cockerell, built in 1845. “There’s the date.” ...

Everything I admired about the new Ashmolean museum is symbolised by the reopening of the massive front doors under the central portico of Sir Charles Cockerell’s 1845 neoclassical building ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England is set to stage an exhibition of 125 drawings attributed to the Old Master. A Raphael show of this size hasn't taken place since 1983.

If you’ve ever looked at a coin or a banknote and thought, “Now, that’s an artwork I’d like to have in my home,” the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology in Oxford, England, has an ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has the best collection outside Cairo of artefacts from the earliest years of Ancient Egypt. But now its new Egyptian galleries will let visitors discover far more ...

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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 ...

Founded in 1683, The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, with world famous collections spanning Egyptian mummies to contemporary art. Recognised as the first ...

Oxford's Ashmolean museum has opened its new Egyptian and Nubian galleries, while the contemporary vigor of the city's art scene is revealed in the show "Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World" at ...