The Ashmolean Museum is short listed for three Arts & Business awards
13th May 2008
Arts & Business South East, the charity dedicated to creating sustainable partnerships between the business and arts worlds, has short listed the Ashmolean’s corporate relationships with Audley Travel, Beard Construction and the Oxford Bus Company.
The Ashmolean opens to the public a refurbished section of the Museum
12th May 2008
The Ashmolean presents the redisplay of the 19th-century permanent collections of Western Art in three magnificent galleries on the Museum’s second floor.
Camille Pissarro, Family and Friends: Masterworks from the Ashmolean Museum
25th April 2008
For the first time, the Ashmolean Museum tours Japan and Taiwan with the exhibition Camille Pissarro, Family and Friends: Masterworks from the Ashmolean Museum.
Take One Picture
15th April 2008
The exhibition of cross curricular work by the Blake CE Aided Primary School, Witney, Oxon and Haddenham County First School, Bucks, is part of the National Gallery’s nationwide initiative Take One Picture.
The Ashmolean Museum receives the second tranche of a major donation for a new Islamic Gallery
3rd April 2008
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Sultan Abdul Aziz Al-Saud presents the Ashmolean Museum with the second tranche of his generous £2million gift towards a new Islamic Gallery.
Oxford Choirs Join Forces For City's New Fringe
25th March 2008
In a unique celebration of voices, sounds and rhythms, two outstanding Oxford choirs will perform in the remarkable setting of the Ashmolean Museum's Randolph Sculpture Gallery.
The Ashmolean completes construction of the external frame of its new building
11th March 2008
Britain’s first public museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, marked a key stage in the building progress of its major redevelopment, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The Ashmolean Museum acquires two Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces
11th February 2008
Two major paintings by the artists Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti have been saved for the nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme and permanently allocated to the Ashmolean.
The Ashmolean announces the winners of Picturing the New Ashmolean: Children’s Art Competition
28th January 2008
The winners were announced at a special awards ceremony and launch of the new graphics featuring the first-prize winning artwork on the back of two Oxford Bus Company Park and Ride buses on Sunday, 27 January 2008.
The Secretary of State for Culture visits the Ashmolean Museum
18th January 2008
The Rt Hon James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, visited the Ashmolean Museum on 17 January to learn about the Museum's plans for the future.
The Ashmolean Museum lends 12 artworks to the exhibition Millais at Tate Britain
1st October 2007
While the Ashmolean undergoes a major redevelopment, items from the Museum’s much loved Combe collection of Pre-Raphaelites can be seen in Millais at Tate Britain until 13 January 2008.