Poetry in Galleries Dec 2025

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Drop-in, FREE activity on Saturday afternoon

Gallery 2, lower ground floor in the Ashmolean Story Gallery.


With Oxfordshire poets

Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will explore and celebrate the Museum’s pieces, renowned or recherche, intriguing or glorious and newly-acquired artworks.

Poems will be recited next to the objects and artworks that inspired the poets. If you want to talk to the poets, most of us are friendly!

The December tour will be inside the Ancient Middle East Gallery 19 on the ground floor.

Visitors on the seats in the Ancient Middle East Gallery
 

This event is part of our Connect & Collaborate season of events.