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The ‘new’ Ashmolean

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 often come in ...
Nature

Historic Scientific Instruments in the Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

ON Tuesday, May 5, the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford was reopened as a home for old scientific instruments, especially the magnificent collection presented to the University by Mr. Lewis Evans, on ...
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Ashmolean Museum to Stage Extensive Exhibition of Raphael Drawings

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which holds the largest group of Raphael drawings in the world, is set to stage an exhibition of 125 drawings attributed to the Old Master, opening on June 1. Not since ...
Nature

The Old Ashmolean, Oxford

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 this ...
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Musæum tradescantianum : or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London / By John Tradescant. London, Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by ...

" ... Prepared by R.T. Gunther for the opening of the Old Ashmolean museum ..." "Pages 74 to 178, containing the remainder of the Catalogus plantarum in horto ...
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Ashmolean heralds 'critical' museum shop in 'really tricky' landscape

The Oxford Ashmolean has heralded a “critical” element of its museum during Christmas as it continues to adjust within a "really tricky" landscape. The commercial director of the organisation – which ...
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An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest

A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...