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	Ashmolean Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) in Oxford, England is the world's first university museum.
		One wing of the building is occupied by the Taylor Institution, the modern languages faculty of the university.
		The main museum contains the original collections of Elias Ashmole and John Tradescant (father and son), as well as huge collections of archaeology specimens and fine art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashmolean_Museum (507 words)

	Museums in Oxfordshire, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a branch museum of Oxfordshire's Department of Leisure and Arts, schools are warmly invited to use the museum and education room.
		The museum is housed in a manor house dating from the 12th century, rebuilt in 1684 by Sir Christopher Wren and decorated by Grinling Gibbons and James Wyatt.
		The museum is housed in the Old Court House, which still belongs to the Bloxham Feoffees, trustees of the ancient Bloxham charities.
	archive.museophile.org /museums/oxon.html (3974 words)

	Ashmolean Museum Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built in 1678 - 1683 to house the collection of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677 -- the ones he had collected himself as well as those he had inherited from the travellers John Tradescant, father and son.
		After the various specimens had been moved into new museums, the "Old Ashmolean" building was used until 1935 as office space for the Oxford English Dictionary staff.
		It then became the "Museum of the History of Science" and was used to display the large collection of scientific instruments given to Oxford University by Lewis Evans, including the world's largest collection of astrolabes.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/as/ashmolean_museum.html (321 words)

	Magazine Antiques: The Ashmolean, a collection of collections - Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England
		The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is housed in an impressive neo-Grecian building designed by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) in 1845, which remains one of the most imposing buildings in Oxford.
		The museum itself was established in 1683 in a smaller building nearby and is the oldest public museum in Great Britain, and perhaps the world.
		Among the donors whose gifts have transformed the museum are a gardener, a grocer, a chemist, a schoolboy, a financier and a writer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_6_161/ai_87130290 (1507 words)

	Museums in the Cotswolds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884 when Lt.-General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University.
		His two conditions were that a museum was built to house it and that someone should be appointed to lecture in anthropology.
		Teddy Bear Museum where, since 1988, they hav ecelebrated every aspect of the teddy bear, from his arrival at the beginning of the twentieth century to his worldwide popularity today.
	www.cotswolds-calling.com /museums.htm (410 words)

	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
		The Ashmolean is one of the great museums in the world - and it can lay claim to be Britain's first official museum.
		The Ashmolean was originally based on the idiosyncratic collection of natural history specimens collected by gardening pioneers John Tradescant (father and son).
		The first Ashmolean was composed of three separate parts; the collection, a chemistry laboratory, and lecture rooms.
	www.britainexpress.com /cities/oxford/ashmolean.htm (398 words)

	Eastern Art Report Online: The Ashmolean Museum's Oriental Collections: Past, Present and Future , by James W Allan ...
		The Keeper of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, reputedly the oldest museum in the world, relates the story behind the establishment of the museum.
		In 1962 the contents of its museum were moved to a newly built department within the Ashmolean Museum, the Department of Eastern Art, and the institute was abolished.
		A museum in the United States requests a loan of a variety of oriental objects for an exhibition, producing a mass of paperwork but also the possibility of a member of staff accompanying the objects as courier.
	www.eapgroup.com /allanj1.htm (1902 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the UK
		Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
		[Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
		Museum of science and industry that "not only explores the impact of science and technology in our daily lives but promotes the region's significant scientific contribution and provides an opportunity for genuine dialogue about science and the issues that affect us all".
	www.mda.org.uk /vlmp (8168 words)

	The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ashmolean Museum has a medium sized collection of very good Pre-Raphaelite pictures, and there are various other places in Oxford to see their work.
		The Ashmolean was the first public museum in Britain, arising in part from a collection of natural history items from the Tradescants bequeathed to Elias Ashmole, and thence to Oxford.
		Opposite is the University Museum, designed by the architects Deane and Woodward and completed in 1860 according to the principles of architecture laid down by Ruskin, with an emphasis inside on the iron framework and with marble pillars of different colours.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /other/oxford.htm (515 words)

	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The nucleus of the Ashmolean collection was formed by the 'closet of rarities' (a collection of curiosities rather than works of art) assembled by the traveller and gardener John Tradescant (1608-62) and given in 1659 to the antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92), who offered it to Oxford University in 1675.
		The original Ashmolean Museum was built by the University to the design of the mason and sculptor Thomas Wood to house this collection and was opened in 1683-the first public museum in Great Britain.
		In 1899 the designation 'Ashmolean Museum' was transferred to the new building and the original museum of Thomas Wood became known as the 'Old Ashmolean Building'.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /database/museums/ashmolea.html (246 words)

	French Drawings and Watercolours from the Ashmolean Museum Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The exhibition is curated by Jon Whiteley, Senior Assistant Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, and marks the publication of his two volume catalogue of the Museum’s French drawings collection.
		A different aspect of his art is seen in the invention of drawing, in which Boucher illustrates the story told by the Roman author Pliny the Elder, who claimed that the art of drawing was discovered by a Corinthian girl tracing the shadow of her lover on a wall.
		The version in the Ashmolean in chalk, ink and watercolours, was probably made by Manet as the basis of a print which was never finished and differs in many details from the painting.
	www.wallacecollection.org /e_n/e/f_d_w/ashmolean.htm (693 words)

	Oxford University Gazette: Ashmolean Museum Annual Report 1999--2000 (supplement)
		In the case of the Ashmolean, it is the funds to improve display and educational provision, and the staff to carry out those improvements, which are lacking.
		The Museum was open for four days over Christmas and the New Year, when it has in the past been closed, in order to allow the public access to the loan exhibition of Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis.
		The Museum's world-renowned collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery received an outstanding addition this year when the seventh-century Holderness Cross was acquired with the generous support of the NACF and the help of the London dealer Sam Fogg, who had bought it at auction.
	www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2000-1/supps/1_4570.htm (3456 words)

	Museum of Garden History History
		The knot garden at the museum is in the style of the Tradescants' time.
		The original is in the Ashmolean, and a copy is on display in the museum.
		It was the first museum of its kind in Britain open to the public, charging 6d admission.
	www.cix.co.uk /~museumgh/tradescants.htm (582 words)

	Hotels near Ashmolean Museum Of Art & Archaeology
		The Randolph is one of Oxfords leading hotels and is situated in the heart of the city opposite the Ashmolean museum.
		The hotel is near to many tourist attractions including the Ashmolean (the oldest public museum), and Blenheim Palace.
		Oxford's many ancient colleges, museums and gardens are in and around the historical centre of the city, including the famous Oxford Dreaming Spires, The Bodleian Library, The Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
	www.activereservations.com /hotel/en/hotels-near-attractions/830.html (897 words)

	Ashmolean Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Birmingham works are supplemented by loans from the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
		The Ashmolean Museum retains the copyright of all materials.
		Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford.
	www.museumhelp.com /ashmolean-museum (432 words)

	Ashmolean Museum Acquires Major Samuel Palmer Watercolour - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		The Ashmolean Museum has achieved its aim of acquiring a great Romantic landscape painting in the bicentenary year of its artist, Samuel Palmer (1805 – 1881), following a public appeal for funds.
		The acquisition was announced at the Ashmolean on October 13, 2005.
		The Ashmolean is to undergo a £50 million redevelopment, £15 million of which has recently been secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART30999.html (1032 words)

	ARG-Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The collection of 19th century drawings in the Ashmolean began in the lifetime of many of the artists who created them.
		By the 1860s, the Museum was already famous for its wealth of drawings by past and contemporary artists.
		Graduate students from the Department of Art History visited Oxford during the fall course to study the drawings first-hand, and prepared essays to be published in the exhibition catalogue.
	www.upenn.edu /ARG/archive/ashmolean (239 words)

	The Ashmolean Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The British Museum is a perennial building site, surrounded by a nasty urban warren, crammed like the Central Line at rush hour with uncomprehending tourists and pre-rational children, displaying big things in otherwise mainly empty rooms with legends prepared by the badly-informed.
		The Ashmolean is just the opposite: quiet, with impressive and complete displays, knowledgeable and informative legends, and visited mainly by the intelligent.
		Also unlike the British Museum, the Ashmolean has an excellent website at www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk, where you can find opening hours, location, details of the collections, and other information.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/classics/ashmol.htm (347 words)

	Ashmolean Museum - places2visit.co.uk - BROWSE.
		The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England is the world's first university museum.
		Since 1935 the building has been established as the Museum of the History of Science, with exhibitions including the scientific instruments given to Oxford University by Lewis Evans (1853-1930), amongst them the world's largest collection of astrolabe s.
		As the thieves ignored other works in the same room and it has not been offered for sale it is most likely that this was a case of an artwork stolen to order.
	www.places2visit.co.uk /WTT/a/Ashmolean_Museum_Oxford_232c532451.html (1509 words)

	Museums - EntsWeb Directory
		Today the collections number more than 68,000,000 specimens that are at the heart of the institution's world class scientific research, information services, education and exhibition activities.
		The Science Museum, prides itself on communicating hard science through interaction enjoy the museums sense of history and embracing of the future in our varied galleries and exhibitions that appeal to all of the family and those interested in art and culture
		Founded in 1852 to support and encourage excellence in art and design, it was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria.
	www.entsweb.co.uk /tourist/museums/index.html (742 words)

	Penn: Office of University Communications: "Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum" on Display at the ...
		PHILADELPHIA -- "Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford," will be on display April 16 through June 27 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., Philadelphia.
		The collection of 19th century drawings in the Ashmolean began in the lifetime of many of the artists who made them.
		"Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum" was made possible by Friends of the Arthur Ross Gallery, the Arthur Ross Foundation and the Offices of Oxford University, North America, New York City.
	www.upenn.edu:9000 /pennnews/article.php?id=608 (304 words)

	Ashmolean Museum: Eastern Art - Creswell Photographic Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1975 the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum was fortunate enough to receive a bequest consisting of the unique negative collection of Professor K.A.C. Creswell, the eminent pioneer of medieval Islamic architectural history.
		Among the photographs are many of those used to illustrate the two publications which remain the basic research tools for scholars of medieval Islamic architecture: Creswell's Early Muslim Architecture, and Muslim Architecture of Egypt.
		Over the past decade the Ashmolean Museum has undertaken the printing, identification and digitisation of the Creswell Archive with the aim of making this exceptional collection available to a wider audience.
	creswell.ashmol.ox.ac.uk (285 words)

	Access Guide: Ashmolean Museum
		Although there are changes in level, most of the facilities can be accessed via an alternative route (except: coins, medals, music and antiquities – a problem that should be addressed by 2004).
		The Libraries contents (apart from coins, medals, music and antiquities) were moved to the Sackler Library in October 2002 and no access to the Sackler Library exists from the Ashmolean Museum.
		Only the Coin Room Library remains located within the museum, but this cannot be accessed except by stair.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /access/departments/ashmolean.shtml (219 words)

	IgoUgo: Oxford Attractions, Oxford Festivals, Things To Do In Oxford
		John Tradescant's collection of archaeological rarities (both man-made and natural) originally opened to the public in South London in the early 17th century, for a charge of 6d (2.5p).
		Opened in the latter half of the 17th century, this is the UK's oldest public museum.
		The permanent paintings there are an impressive bunch - the museum has works by Monet, Van Gogh, and a couple of Rodin sculptures as well.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=2295 (520 words)

	Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
		Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
		© Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ, UK
		The contents of this site may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the Museum.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk (113 words)

	Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On permanent display are the University's collections of antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East; British and European paintings; Asian art, including Chinese bronzes, Islamic and Japanese ceramics and metalware, Japanese screens and Indian sculpture; sculpture and appliued art.
		Admission: The Museum is normally open to the public between 1.00 pm and 4.30 pm, Monday to Saturday, Sunday 2.00 - 4.30 pm.
		If visiting a museum to see a particular work of art we strongly suggest telephoning in advance to confirm that it will be on view.
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