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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.
Sir Karl Theodore Parker, CBE, FBA (2 July 1895 – 22 July 1992), occasionally known as KTP, was an English art historian and museum curator.He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1945 to 1962 and Trustee of the National Gallery from 1962 to 1969.
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of 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 of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.
MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum, before his appointment as director of the Society of Antiquaries. [2] He has been president of the Society for the History of Natural History since 2015, when he succeeded Hugh Torrens. [3] MacGregor is founder of the Journal of the History of Collections which he edited from 1989 ...
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
Information on the Ashmolean Museum's website "The Sumerian king list: translation". etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08. Langdon, Stephen Herbert (1923). Oxford editions of cuneiform texts - The Weld-Blundell Collection, vol. II. Historical Inscriptions, Containing Principally the Chronological Prism, W-B. 444 (PDF).
Ashmolean Museum Edward Thurlow Leeds (29 July 1877 – 17 August 1955) was an English archaeologist and museum curator . He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1928 to 1945.