The Ashmolean Plan will create many new galleries and facilities. Summary documents are now available for a number of these as pdf files. To access these, please follow the links below.
Follow this link for the 
full list of galleries to be created within the new building.
Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology Gallery
The Ashmolean's Ancient Near Eastern collection represents a cross-section of the diverse cultures and civilizations to have arisen in this region, from Stone Age hunters to the arrival of Islam. Alongside the University's teaching of Near Eastern archaeology and languages, this represents a significant resource and will be given due prominence in the new Museum.
Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology Gallery
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Gallery
This gallery will enhance and consolidate the display of the Museum's Anglo-Saxon and medieval collections. The gallery will provide visitors with a rare opportunity to consider these two periods together, offering a fascinating insight into the cultural and social life of Anglo-Saxon and medieval Britain.
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Gallery
Chinese Galleries
Prior to redevelopment, the Ashmolean has only been able to display ten per cent of its Chinese collections. These two new galleries, set to open in the year of the Beijing Olympics, will make many items accessible to the public for the first time, providing comprehensive coverage of Chinese art and culture.
Chinese Galleries
Education Centre
Catering for around 24,000 children each year, plus adults and community groups, the Ashmolean's Education Service is set to benefit greatly from the new Education Centre. With its own separate entrance to the Museum, the Centre will provide for all kinds of educational activity, from public lectures to object handling sessions.
Greek Galleries
The new gallery of Crete and Early Greece (the gallery of the Greek Bronze Age) and that of Classical Greece will be part of a suite of rooms devoted to the ancient and classical world, contextualised by their proximity to galleries devoted to ancient India, Italy and the Near East. The Greek galleries, by taking a new approach to the objects' display, will greatly increase the educational potential of these collections.
Greek Galleries
Indian Gallery
This gallery will explore the development of Indian art and culture over the past four thousand years, paying special attention to India's historic links with other cultures and religions, such as Buddhism, Islam, and colonial Britain.
Indian Gallery
Islamic Gallery
This double-height gallery will allow the display of a far greater portion of the Museum's 4,000+ Islamic artefacts than has been previously possible, presenting Islamic culture to a wider public. This will greatly increase the collection's potential for educational use, from primary school to post-doctoral level.
Islamic Gallery
Japanese Gallery
The Ashmolean holds outstanding collections of Japanese ceramics, lacquerware, paintings and other decorative arts, a large number of which will be on public view for the first time in this new gallery and print room.
Japanese Gallery
Money Gallery
This gallery, with its incorporated library and study area, will explore money both culturally and thematically, looking at money's relationship with, for example, sovereignty and identity. It will also present a widely accessible overview of the history of currency.
Money Gallery
Textiles Gallery
The Textiles gallery will be truly cross-cultural in approach, looking at the purpose of textiles as dress, furnishings and ceremonial artefacts with examples from across Asia and the Islamic world, Europe and seventeenth-century England.
Textiles Gallery
