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 ...

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 two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Old Ashmolean, Oxford, falls on May 21, a date duly recorded by Elias Ashmole, donor of its original possessions. In recognition of ...

The world’s first public museum, the Ashmolean has always been a beacon of learning but this autumn’s reopening heralds a significant shift in culture. The new multi-million pound ...

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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 ...

A FUBTHEB extension of the Ashmolean Museum in the University of Oxford was opened by Lord Crawford and Balcarres on April 25, towards the cost of which the Worshipful Company of Drapers has ...

‘The year 2012 was a very busy and exciting one for the Ashmolean,” said the museum’s director, Professor Christopher Brown. The museum had almost 900,000visitors, half of them ...

THE Ashmolean Museum’s collection spans more than 10,000 years and contains over a million objects, documented in paper records covering more than… Newsletters Jobs ...