The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has raised $4.48 million ($5.8 million) to acquire a Crucifixion painting by the renowned Renaissance painter Fra Angelico (ca. 1400–1455). This acquisition ...
A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...
Tall tales, traditions and bizarre collections reward the nosy in England’s historic university city.
Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the UK after more than 200 years. Fra Angelico's “The Crucifixion” was set to be sold to ...
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has revealed its environmentally friendly, redesigned cafe as it welcomes a coffee company to its forecourt. The new-look Ashmolean Cafe has seen existing assets ...
The Ashmolean closed for 10 months throughout 2009 for a major £63m redevelopment project The UK's oldest public museum has reported welcoming one million annual visitors for the first time in 16 ...
In a major first, the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has returned a 16th century bronze idol to India for its journey back to the temple in Tamil Nadu where it belongs. The sacred icon of ...
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Ashmolean Museum announces free events for families this summer
The Ashmolean Museum, recently shortlisted for a ‘Kids In Museum’ Award, will host the Festival of Archaeology on Saturday, ...
Watercolors, Nikolaus Pevsner explained in his 1964 lecture “The Englishness of English Art,” enjoy in Britain a status “never equalled in any other country.” The reason, Pevsner suggested, is that ...
Road-trippers winding through England’s countryside inevitably head to the University of Oxford and the city embracing it. There, like Oxonians (students and teachers) before them — say, Sir Walter ...
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