Historical version 3 of Ashmolean Museum (view current version)
- 278000
- 278018
- Beaumont Street (map of this place)
- OX1 2PH
- ashmol.ox.ac.uk
- Tuesdays to Saturdays: 10am to 5pm, Sundays: 2pm to 5pm
Opened in 1683, in what is now the Museum of the History of Science, the Ashmolean is the oldest museum in the western world. The museum holds collections of Antiquities, Casts, Eastern Art, Coins and Western Art and requires at least an afternoon's viewing if you are to take any of it in. The museum now occupies an impressive building on the north side of Beaumont Street.
Oh and they have Powhatan's cloak which is quite nifty. Well I think so. Honest.
OS X co-ord:
451160
OS Y co-ord:
206563
(Latitude:
51.754964
Longitude:
-1.258740)