Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. 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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Oxford, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology”, “Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology”, and “Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Balliol College and Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library.
Balliol College
University
Photo: Toby Ord, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. Balliol College is situated 530 feet east of Ashmolean Museum.
Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library
Library
Photo: Ralf van Bühren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.
Trinity College
University
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land previously occupied by Durham College, home to Benedictine monks from Durham Cathedral. Trinity College is situated 740 feet east of Ashmolean Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Jericho.
Oxford
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Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
Norham Manor
Quarter
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The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.
Ashmolean Museum
- Categories: art museum, university museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ashmolean Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف أشموليان”
- Armenian: “Էշմոլի թանգարան”
- Basque: “Ashmolean Museoa”
- Belarusian: “Музей Эшмала”
- Catalan: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Catalan: “Museu Ashmolean”
- Chinese: “艾什摩林博物馆”
- Chinese: “阿什莫林博物館”
- Chinese: “阿什莫林博物馆”
- Chinese: “阿須摩林博物館”
- Chinese: “阿须摩林博物馆”
- Chinese: “雅殊慕連博物館”
- Czech: “Ashmoleovo muzeum”
- Danish: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Dutch: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اشمول”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اشموليان”
- Esperanto: “muzeo Ashmolean”
- Esperanto: “Muzeo Ashmolean”
- Finnish: “Ashmolean Museum”
- French: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Galician: “Museo Ashmolean”
- Georgian: “აშმოლის მუზეუმი”
- Georgian: “აშმოლისეული მუზეუმი”
- German: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Greek: “Ασμόλειο Μουσείο”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון אשמוליאן”
- Hindi: “एश्मोलियन संग्रहालय”
- Indonesian: “Museum Ashmolean”
- Irish: “Músaem Ashmole”
- Irish: “Músaem Ashmolean”
- Italian: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Japanese: “アシュモレアン博物館”
- Korean: “애슈몰린 박물관”
- Latin: “Museum Ashmoleanum”
- Lithuanian: “Ešmolio muziejus”
- Macedonian: “Ешмолов музеј”
- Malayalam: “ആഷ്മോലിയൻ മ്യൂസിയം”
- Mazanderani: “اشمولین موزه”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ashmolean Museum”
- Persian: “موزه اشمولین”
- Polish: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Portuguese: “museu Ashmolean”
- Portuguese: “Museu Ashmolean”
- Russian: “Музей Ашмола”
- Russian: “Музей Эшмола”
- Serbian: “Ešmolijen muzej”
- Slovenian: “Ashmolov muzej”
- Spanish: “Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology”
- Spanish: “museo Ashmolean”
- Spanish: “Museo Ashmolean”
- Swedish: “Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology”
- Swedish: “Ashmolean Museum”
- Swedish: “Ashmoleanska museet”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์แอชโมเลียน”
- Turkish: “Ashmolean Müzesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ашмолеан музей”
- Ukrainian: “Ешмолівський музей”
- Urdu: “اشمولین عجائب گھر”
- Welsh: “Amgueddfa’r Ashmolean”
- Western Panjabi: “ایشمولین میوزیم”
- Yue Chinese: “雅殊慕連博物館”
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