Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is located on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England. It is the world's first university museum. The first building of the museum has been built in 1678–1683.

Location:

The Museum is on the Beaumont Street and is opposite the Randolph Hotel.

Address:

Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont St
Oxford
OX1 2PH

Opening time

Tues - Sunday 10am - 6pm,
Bank Holiday Monday 10am – 6pm
Admission is Free

Highlights of the Ashmolean's collection include:

• The Alfred Jewel
• Drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci
• Watercolours and paintings by Turner
• Paintings by Paolo Uccello, Piero di Cosimo, John Constable, Claude Lorraine, and Pablo Picasso
• Arab ceremonial dress owned by Lawrence of Arabia
• A death mask of Oliver Cromwell
• The collection of Posie rings
• The Parian Marble
• The ceremonial cloak of Chief Powhatan
• The lantern Gunpowder Plot conspiracist Guy Fawkes carried in 1605
• The Messiah Stradivarius, a violin made by Antonio Stradivari
• The Minoan collection of Arthur Evans