The Ashmolean – the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology – was founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683, when it became the world’s first public museum. If over three centuries of history ...

Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a new exhibition on at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, and it is…the Ashmolean Museum. Almost a year after ...

A dazzling collection of old master drawings, originally assembled by the Ashmolean museum in Oxford to compensate for some distinctly second rate paintings, is going on display to celebrate the 330th ...

[STIRLING SHORTLIST IN DETAIL]: Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is restored and revamped by Rick Mather Architects The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology’s original 17th-century building was described ...

The Ashmolean Museum has been accused of underplaying the risk to its visitors after hackers stole the personal details of nearly 8,000 of them. An email sent to those affected by the Oxford museum ...

(MENAFN- USA Art News) Three brothers, heirs to part of an art collection that belonged to their grandfather, are in dispute with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. The Ashmolean, founded in 1683 by ...

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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was ...