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    The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/æʃˈmoʊliən, ˌæʃməˈliːən/) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first...
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    also known as the Old Ashmolean Building to distinguish it from the newer Ashmolean Museum building completed in 1894. The museum was built in 1683, and...
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    Albertina Museum. Vienna, Austria, 2008. Retrieved on 13 June 2011. "Two Men conversing on a Flight of Steps, and a Head shouting". Ashmolean Museum of Art...
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    who visited the British Museum, especially on public holidays. The Ashmolean Museum, however, founded in 1677 from the personal collection of Elias Ashmole...
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    Arthur Evans (category People associated with the Ashmolean Museum)
    and Sons. —— (1884). The Ashmolean museum as a home of archæology in Oxford: an inaugural lecture given in the Ashmolean Museum, November 20, 1884. Oxford:...
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    The Ashmolean Museum: A brief history of the museum and its collections. Ashmolean Museum/Jonathan Horne Publications. "Support Us". The Ashmolean. Archived...
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    connoisseur and dealer Bernard Berenson, Clark was appointed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford aged twenty-seven, and three years later he was put in charge...
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    predominantly centralised fashion. Oxford operates the Ashmolean Museum, the world's oldest university museum; Oxford University Press, the largest university...
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    Alfred Jewel (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    Somerset, England and is now one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It has been dated to the late 9th century, in the reign...
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    Elias Ashmole (category People associated with the Ashmolean Museum)
    and priceless manuscripts to the University of Oxford to create the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmole was born on 23 May 1617 in Breadmarket Street, Lichfield,...
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    Report of the Visitors of The Ashmolean Museum - August 2006—July 2007 (PDF) (Report). Oxford, England, UK: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. 14 January...
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    2023. "Nan (The Dreamer)". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 June 2023. "Nan (the Dreamer)". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 15 May 2023. "Head of a Women...
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    500 Psalm 90 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK XVII 2066 500 Ecclesiastes 6–7 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK XXIV 2386 500 Psalms 83–84 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK L...
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    (80,000), The Metropolitan Museum of art (26,000), University of Pennsylvania (42,000), Ashmolean Museum (40,000), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (40,000)...
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    natural history museums. In 1683, the first purpose-built museum covering natural philosophy, the original Ashmolean museum (now called the Museum of the History...
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    Iffley Mill destroyed by fire. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is formed by merger of the old Ashmolean Museum and the University Galleries at...
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    In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began...
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    Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun (category Exhibitions at the British Museum)
    blockbuster King Tut show cancelled for good". March 17, 2021. "Ashmolean Museum". Ashmolean website. Retrieved July 21, 2014. "Griffith Institute Archive"...
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    holdings of scientific societies. The Ashmolean Museum, opened in England in 1683, was the first natural history museum to grant admission to the general...
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    and other quadrupeds, Louvre The Battlefield Palette, British Museum and Ashmolean Museum The Bull Palette, at the Musée du Louvre, named for the bull...
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    Drawing and Fine Art (which he founded at Oxford), is at the Ashmolean Museum. The Museum has promoted Ruskin's art teaching, utilising the collection...
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    JSTOR 25535635. 46:43–64. Scarisbrick and Henig, Finger Rings, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003 Delamer, Ida (1996). "The Claddagh Ring". Irish Arts Review....
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    following museums and art galleries are located in the city of Oxford, England (with locations), many run by the University of Oxford: Ashmolean Museum* (Beaumont...
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    Ashmolean Museum. p. 33. ISBN 0-900090-54-5. Taylor, Gerald; Scarisbrick, Diana (1978). Finger Rings From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. Ashmolean...
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    Messiah Stradivarius (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    tailpiece, and pegs have been replaced. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. The violin, known as the Messiah (Messie in French)...
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  • collection of museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Norwich Castle, the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum. the Shipley Museum and the...
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    (1863) The Holy Family (1878) Self-portrait at the Age of 14 (1841), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Love at First Sight (1846) F. G. Stephens (1847), Tate Britain...
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    public on appointment. The museum now includes a recreation of "Tradescant's Ark" through the loan from the Ashmolean Museum of the objects which originally...
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    regard or as a gift. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, has an outstanding collection. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London also has a good...
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    John Evans (archaeologist) (category People associated with the Pitt Rivers Museum)
    prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor...
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