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 ...

Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...

At the core of the Ashmolean Museum's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, ...

A dazzling collection of old master drawings, originally assembled by the Ashmolean museum in Oxford to compensate for some distinctly second rate paintings, is going on display to celebrate the 330th ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a new exhibition on at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, and it is…the Ashmolean Museum. Almost a year after ...

Reporting from Oxford, England — The words “musty” and “fusty” are often trotted out to describe much about Oxford, and not always derogatorily. Visitors who flock to this college town often come in ...

The Ashmolean’s show presents a ‘mix of the wonderful, the weird and the downright wacky’ of the plant world ...

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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was ...

Right at the entrance to the Ashmolean's newly refurbished and expanded Egyptian galleries you know you are in a different place. There stand two giant statues of the fertility god Min, one holding ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has the best collection outside Cairo of artefacts from the earliest years of Ancient Egypt. But now its new Egyptian galleries will let visitors discover far more about ...