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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.
Elias Ashmole by John Riley, c. 1683 [31] The Old Ashmolean Building, now the Museum of the History of Science The main entrance of the current Ashmolean Museum building. In 1669, Ashmole received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Oxford.
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.
The Weld-Blundell Prism ("WB", dated 1800 BCE) is a clay, cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. [2] The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell. [3]
He resigned his keepership at the Ashmolean Museum in 1855 and was then given an honorary DCL degree. [1] His time at the Ashmolean Museum saw significant changes in the natural history displays, based on " natural theology ", as propounded by William Paley (1743–1805), the Archdeacon of Carlisle .
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 ...
In 1755, Huddesford took over from his father as keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. [3] Huddesford improved the museum's reputation. [1] His scholarship and his ability to take advice are cited as reasons for his success. Huddesford cleared out many of the collections to ensure that all the exhibits were essential.
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.