Something a little different from the normal write-ups I publish on this site regarding this visit to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; rather than explain each area or go into detail about areas of the museum or the history of some of the artefacts I’m going to let the photos of the exhibits do the talking. This is a way to show you the sorts of things that the museum may be displaying if you travel to Oxford, and encourage you to look around the museum yourself to read more of the information for the bits that interest you. It’s also to save me having to hunt for that information myself since that’s time-consuming and I’m fundamentally lazy. The Ashmolean is huge with so much more on display than I’ve taken the time to photograph here so it’s a place that’s absolutely worthy of a visit, and it’s free to do so.
This visit to the Ashmolean took place in August 2022 and was part of a weekend break in Oxford. Prior to looking around Oxford’s most famous museum we’d looked around the Natural History and Pitt Rivers museums following a walk from our hotel.
For us, and I imagine for many people, the stand-out items on display at the Ashmolean were those from the Egyptian, Roman, and Assyrian collections, but if you like paintings, sculptures, or treasures such as rare violins or timepieces then you will find something to interest you.
In the next post in this series covering our short stay in Oxford we’ll be visiting the Botanic Garden and rewarding our morning and afternoon’s cultural tour of the city with a small wander around some of its pubs. It’s what we do.