History of Science Museum

The History of Science Museum in Broad Street, , , holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
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  • Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday noon—5:00 PM
  • Email: info@hsm.ox.ac.uk
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Oxford, UK
  • Also known as: “History of Science Museum, Oxford”, “Museum for the History of Science”, “Museum of the History of Science”, “Museum of the History of Science, Oxford”, “Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford”, and “Old Ashmolean Building”
  • Address: Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Exeter College and Sheldonian Theatre.

University
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is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university. The College was founded in 1314 by two brothers from , Bishop Walter Stapledon and Sir Richard Stapledon, as an institution to educate clergy, and has been located on Turl Street since 1315.

Theater building
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The , in the centre of , England, was built from 1664 to 1669 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford. The building is named after Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of and later chancellor of the university.

University
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, formally The Principal and Scholars of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, or BNC, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in . is situated 500 feet south of History of Science Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxford and Jericho.

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is the oldest university city in the , some 50 miles to the west of the capital in its own county of , on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.

Suburb
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is a historic suburb of the English city of . It consists of the streets bounded by the , , Walton Street and Walton Well Road.

Quarter
is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.

History of Science Museum

Latitude
51.75427° or 51° 45′ 15″ north
Longitude
-1.25546° or 1° 15′ 20″ west
Inception
1683
Wheelchair access
limited
Operator
University of Oxford
Open location code
9C3WQP3V+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 60903336
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q6941088
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“History of Science Museum” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Գիտության պատմության թանգարան”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Història de la Ciència”
  • Chinese: “牛津大學科學史博物館”
  • Chinese: “牛津科學史博物館”
  • Chinese: “科學史博物館”
  • Dutch: “Museum of the History of Science”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo pri Historio de Scienco de Universitato de Oksfordo”
  • French: “History of Science Museum”
  • German: “History of Science Museum”
  • Japanese: “オックスフォードの科学史博物館”
  • Japanese: “科学史博物館”
  • Russian: “Музей истории науки”
  • Slovenian: “History of Science Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej zgodovine znanosti Univerze v Oxfordu”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej zgodovine znanosti”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia de la Ciencia (Oxford)”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia de la Ciencia”
  • Swedish: “Museum of the History of Science, Oxford”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ประวัติศาสตร์วิทยาศาสตร์”
  • Turkish: “Oxford Bilim Tarihi Müzesi”

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