Museums &
Galleries in Oxford
Tour the world-famous Ashmolean Museum or just visit some of
the city’s 67 galleries.
Oxford’s museums [Visit
Website] are among the City’s most famous attractions,
coming in all shapes, sizes and content. They offer all-weather
and year-round interest for all visitors, including families.
Most have temporary exhibitions and lectures as well as 'hands
on' and 'family fun' sessions. Probably the most famous and certainly
one of the world’s leading museums, is the Ashmolean.
Ashmolean
Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2PH
Tel: 01865 278000
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Thanks to a major £61m redevelopment and a new building,
designed by award-winning Rick Mather Architects, the Ashmolean
has now twice the display space it had before, as well as 39 new
galleries.
The Museum of Oxford recreates the life and times of Oxford's
townspeople - exciting and violent as they some times were, especially
during the English Civil War when Oxford became Britain's Capital
and Charles I held his Court - and Parliament here.
As well as its museums, Oxford has Oxford's art collections
range from the magnificent Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum,
to the Old Masters on display in the Christ Church Picture Gallery.
Modern Art Oxford caters for 20/21st century tastes. Almost all
the colleges have remarkable collections of portraits of benefactors
and alumni.
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