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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) [2] on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. [3] Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.
The Arundel marbles are a collection of stone Roman and Ancient Greek sculptures and inscriptions collected by Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel in the early seventeenth century, the first such comprehensive collection of its kind in England. They are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, having been donated in two groups.
The Oxford Palette, also known as the Two Dog Palette or the Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette, is an Ancient Egyptian cosmetic palette discovered in Hierakonpolis. It is part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , United Kingdom .
The Messiah on display at the Ashmolean Museum. The Messiah - Salabue Stradivarius of 1716 is a violin made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is considered to be the only Stradivarius in existence in as "new" state. [1] The neck has been lengthened and at minimum the bass bar, bridge, tailpiece, and pegs have been replaced.
Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. The John Evans collection, housed at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, comprises more than 12,000 objects, including a large proportion of British Palaeolithic stone ...
Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. ... Pages in category "Collection of the Ashmolean Museum" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 ...
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts [10] Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts [11] University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts [12] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 ...
It is held in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, north of Abingdon. [4] The Abingdon Sword has silver mounts inlaid with niello in the Trewhiddle style. [5] The sword's guard has interlaced animal motifs. [3] Ornamentation includes symbols of the Evangelists. The pommel of the sword has two animal heads for decoration.