Ashmolean Museum

...sooo 2005. The last of the big projects given cash before the lottery bodies pulled the plug on funding are completing - such as the Ashmolean Museum extension in Oxford, opened last week. Some have been glorious, others less so. But we shall...

In this article: Caruso St John, Will Alsop, Nottingham Contemporary, Recession, Peter Zumthor, Nottingham, and University of Derby

I don't quite know how I'd managed to avoid the Ashmolean Museum all my life, but until just the other day I had. "Avoiding" isn't quite the right word of course; it wasn't that I crossed the road to steer clear every time I visited Oxford...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Miscegenation, Charles Brown, and Oxford

...the Press Association site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Published Date: 08 November 2009 Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has opened its doors to the public for the first time since its multi-million pound...

In this article: Oxford, All rights reserved, and Charles Cockerell

The UK's oldest public museum has reopened after a GBP61m redevelopment. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was renovated to double the gallery space. The new building,...

In this article: Ashmolean, University of Oxford, Elias Ashmole, International Herald Tribune, Guy Fawkes, and UK

The Ashmolean redevelopment cost GBP61m The renovated Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology opens to the public on Saturday 7 November. The award-winning architect Rick Mather has designed a new building, replacing all but the Grade I...

In this article: Elias Ashmole, Ashmolean, University of Oxford, Identity crisis, Royal Society, and Charles I

...Triumph of Love', a Titian bought earlier this year The Alfred Jewel, which is housed at the Ashmolean Museum Detail of Guy Fawkes's lantern, at the Ashmolean Museum The oldest museum in the world has undergone an extraordinary...

In this article: Oxford, Oxford University, Charles Cockerell, Titian, and Guy Fawkes

...of Love', a Titian bought earlier this year The Alfred Jewel, which is housed at the Ashmolean Museum Detail of Guy Fawkes's lantern, at the Ashmolean Museum Everything I admired about the new Ashmolean museum is symbolised by the...

In this article: Charles Cockerell, Islamic, Titian, Oxford, Dog, Tin, National Gallery, and Nicolas Poussin

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Room for Lawrence of Arabia's shirt after GBP61million refit at the Ashmolean Museum Jack Malvern To admirers of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia, the outline of the...

In this article: T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, First World War, University of Oxford, and Central Asia

...museum in Britain - probably in the world - is reopening next week, twice the size, twice as bright, and still free to enter. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, began in the 1630s as a cabinet of curiosities collected by the gardener father...

In this article: Alfred the Great, Guy Fawkes, Oxford, and Britain

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, whose interior used to be a Victorian "labyrinth", has been given a clean-cut 21st century, multi-million pound re-fit in a bid to cut "museum fatigue". Published: 2:43PM GMT 28 Oct 2009 Britain's oldest...

In this article: Oxford, Oxford University, Oliver Cromwell, Guy Fawkes, and Britain