Ashmolean Museum

@AshmoleanMuseum

🖼 🏺🏛 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art. 🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm.

Oxford, UK

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Joined May 2010

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Ashmolean Museum
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Jul 28
🐚✨ Booking is now open for Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess. Step into the world of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and desire — later worshipped by the Romans as Venus. Today she is thought of as a symbol of passion and beauty, but her story is far older and
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Ashmolean Museum
@AshmoleanMuseum
Jun 20
📢 We are delighted to announce a new exhibition for 2027 📢 Discover the sensory worlds of the Renaissance. Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance. Experience works by artists including Raphael,
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Ashmolean Museum
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Apr 16
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ @guardian "Consistently illuminating" @THEOBSERVERUK ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ @thetimes "Much to savour" @Telegraph Step inside In Bloom and journey from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind some of Britain’s most beloved
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Ashmolean Museum
@AshmoleanMuseum
Apr 8
👀 A closer look at the object that inspired today's animation by the talented Eilidh Morley. This plate shows a sphinx with a lion’s body, a bird’s wings and a woman’s head. It was made around 600 BCE, over 2,600 years ago. The colour of the clay suggests that it was made
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Ashmolean Museum
@AshmoleanMuseum
Mar 20
We are delighted to share that, together, Oxford University's Gardens, Libraries and Museums welcomed over 3.8 million visitors last year! Thank you to all of our wonderful visitors, the Ashmolean is currently the 31st most visited attraction in the UK and is now the most