DRAWING TOGETHER | 2024 APPEAL

Please donate to this year's appeal in support of the Western Art Print Room

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With your help the Print Room can continue its work of preserving, researching, and digitising its extraordinary collections so they can be shared with visitors and audiences across the world, for many more years to come.

About the Print Room

A close up of a magnifying glass over a drawing

The Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room is home to a magnificent collection of works on paper that extends from the 15th century to the present day.

In all, the collection totals about 30,000 drawings and 300,000 prints that include one-of-a-kind works by artists as diverse as Michelangelo, Rubens, Goya, Ruskin, Degas, and Hockney.

Accessible to everyone

The Print Room prides itself on being the most accessible resource of its kind in the world.

Its knowledgeable staff are available from Tuesday to Friday and two Saturdays a month to welcome visitors who can request to see a treasure from the collections.

 

A woman uses a magnifying glass to look at artworks in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

"I floated afterwards all afternoon"

“We are still in awe thinking about it”

Care and preservation

Four artworks propped up on a table in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

When they are not helping visitors, the Print Room staff are engaged in day-to-day preservation and documentation of the extremely delicate works in their care to safeguard them for future generations.

 

What your gift could do

All gifts make a difference.

A monthly gift of £20 or a single gift of £1,000 will have an immediate impact in helping ensure that the Western Art Print Room is able to keep its doors open to the widest possible audience.

Here are some ways your gift could help.

A curator handles artworks in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

 

£20 a month will purchase regular supplies of acid-free tissue and card folders for the safe housing and preservation of drawings

 

Four artworks propped up on a table in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

 

£100 will cover the cost of mounting a newly acquired print for public display

 

Curator Matthew Winterbottom points at an artwork in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

 

£250 a month will support our ongoing outreach events and free public tours

 

A curator handles artworks in the Ashmolean's Western Art Print Room

 

£1,000 a year could fund an internship each summer, to work on digitising an area of the Print Room collections

 

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We need your help

With your help, the Print Room can continue its diligent work of preserving, researching, and digitising its extraordinary collections so they can be shared with visitors and audiences across the world, for many more years to come.

Alongside the Museum's successes, the Ashmolean has faced challenges. The Museum has been hit hard by the rising cost of living, with our utility costs spiralling.

Now more than ever we depend on your support to keep our lights on and our blue doors freely open to the public.

 

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Thank you for your support.