The Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street (between Worcester and St. Giles), ☎ +44 1865 278000, . Tu-Su 10AM-6PM. REOPENED AFTER RENOVATIONS. Vast, impressive, and recently undergone major redevelopment, the Ashmolean is Britain's oldest public museum, having been founded in 1683. The museum displays ancient art from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome, a fine collection of Western art and artifacts and a sizable Eastern Art collection. Highlights include the Amarna Princess Fresco and the Alfred Jewel. A restaurant and gift store also feature.Admission free. (51.7551,-1.2611)�
Inside the Natural History Museum.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road (opposite Keble College), ☎ 044 1865 270949, . Daily 10AM-5PM except for Easter and Christmas. . Houses the University's scientific collections of zoological, entomological, geological, palaeontological and mineralogical specimens, accumulated in the course of the last 3 centuries. The exhibits occupy a large central court with elegant Victorian cast-iron columns supporting the great glass roof, and surrounded on four sides by upper and lower arcades. They are devoted to the history and diversity of life on Earth and the rocks and minerals that form it. Highlights include the famous Oxford Dodo, the largest display of dinosaur remains outside London, a great collection of skeletons, and the nesting swifts in the Museum's main tower. Admission free. (51.75923,-1.25643)�
The Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, . Daily noon-4:30PM. . Oxford's museum of anthropology and ethnology, still largely arranged in Victorian style, making this a rare museum experience. The Pitt Rivers requires time and effort but gives great satisfaction. Look out for the shrunken heads! (Entrance to the Museum is through the Oxford University Museum Natural History (OUMNH) on Parks Road - the entrance is at the far side of the lobby from the main entrance to the OUMNH; visitors therefore need to walk across the ground floor to reach it). Admission free. (51.75850,-1.25502)�
The Museum of Oxford, . The museum tells the tale of the growth of the city and University.(51.751288,-1.257221)�
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, . An art gallery often showing temporary exhibitions of art and photography by renowned contemporary artists, which are accompanied by well designed talks and workshops. Excellent cafe with cheap and great quality eats.Admission free. (51.750849,-1.259260)�
Christ Church Picture Gallery, (Entrance via Oriel Square), ☎ 01865 276 172, . Houses an internationally renowned collection of Old Master paintings and drawings – some 300 paintings and almost 2000 drawings. The paintings include works by Carracci, Tintoretto, Filippino Lippi, Van Dyck and Frans Hals. Christ Church’s collection of Old Masters drawings is one of the most important in the country and includes work by major artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Durer and Rubens. For reasons of space and conservation, it is not possible to show the entire collection but a selection of drawings is always on view.£3/£2. (51.751779,-1.254158)�
Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ, . Monday Closed, Tuesday to Friday 12 to 5pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 2 to 5pm. Located in the Old Ashmolean building, the Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivaled collection of early scientific instruments. The Old Ashmolean building is the world's oldest surviving museum-purpose building. It is a department of Oxford University as well as a public museum. Their website offers an online database of their collection here: . Admission to the museum is free. (51.754506,-1.255097)�
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