News
Early Museum closure on 31 July
30th July 2010
The Ashmolean will close at 5pm on Saturday 31st July due to a Civil Ceremony taking place in the Mallett Gallery at 5.15pm.
Ashmolean Museum is shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2010
22nd July 2010
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, has been shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize for its £61 million transformational redevelopment, designed Rick Mather Architects.
Pottery Workshops with Master Craftsman Cornell Sitar
16th July 2010
Saturday 24 July 2010, 11am, 12.30pm, and 2.30pm. Create your own pot and watch the master at work - free drop-in sessions, children are most welcome.
The Ashmolean launches its first major art exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
16th July 2010
On 16 September 2010 the Ashmolean launches its first major art exhibition in one of the country’s newest and most important temporary exhibition centres.
A new drawing for the Ashmolean’s collection
1st July 2010
The Ashmolean is extremely grateful to the South Mercia branch of NADFAS, whose latest grant has enabled the Museum to purchase an important drawing by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (1876-1938).
HLF awards Oxford University's Museums and Botanic Garden grant under SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE Programme
10th June 2010
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded the University of Oxford’s Museums and Botanic Garden a grant of £410,500 under its SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE Programme.
The Ashmolean Wins RIBA Award 2010
20th May 2010
Today, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the Ashmolean Museum is one of seven winners in the South region to win the 2010 RIBA Award for architectural excellence.
The Ashmolean Dining Room's Ben and Hugo Warner Are Acclaimed 2010 Restaurateurs Of The Year
19th May 2010
Tatler magazine’s annual restaurant awards in The Langham Hotel, London, last week accliamed Ben and Hugo Warner, who opened The Ashmolean Dining Room and Café in the new Ashmolean Museum last November, as Restaurateurs of The Year.
Double win for Ashmolean as it scoops share of £75,000 Art Fund Collect funding pot and makes Art Fund Prize shortlist
18th May 2010
The Art Fund and the Crafts Council are delighted to announce that the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford has won an outstanding piece of contemporary craft to add to its permanent collections through nationwide initiative Art Fund Collect.
The Ashmolean Short-Listed for £100,000 Art Fund
14th May 2010
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is one of four institutions short-listed for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize. The Prize is awarded to the museum or gallery for a project completed in the last year, that the Judges deem
The Ashmolean's Arts of the Eighteenth Century Gallery opens to the public on 29 April
29th April 2010
This gallery completes the sequence of Western Art galleries in the original C.R. Cockerell building of the Museum.
Ashmolean wins Building Project of the Year at Building Awards 2010
28th April 2010
On Thursday 22 April the Ashmolean won Building Project of the Year at the 16th annual Building Awards, the biggest industry event of the year on.
The Ashmolean Long-Listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize
19th February 2010
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is one of eleven institutions long-listed for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize.
Ashmolean Museum Launches Major Online Resource - Eastern Art Online: Yousef Jameel Centre For Islamic and Asian Art
25th January 2010
One of the world’s leading university museums, the Ashmolean, will launch Eastern Art Online: Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art on Thursday 11 February 2010.
A Blanket, A Dose of Penicillin & A Morris - Objects That Tell A History of Oxfordshire And Its Place In The World
18th January 2010
BBC Oxford and museums across the county have today (Monday 18 January) revealed the list of 10 objects they have chosen to tell a history of Oxfordshire and its place in the world.