A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...

Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...

The Ashmolean – the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology – was founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683, when it became the world’s first public museum. If over three centuries of history ...

Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is not just the oldest museum in Britain; it can also boast the most identity crises. Time and again it has stood on the brink of dissolution or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a new exhibition on at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, and it is…the Ashmolean Museum. Almost a year after ...

The Ashmolean Museum has been accused of underplaying the risk to its visitors after hackers stole the personal details of nearly 8,000 of them. An email sent to those affected by the Oxford museum ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is one of the world's great museums, housing an extraordinary collection that spans thousands ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has the best collection outside Cairo of artefacts from the earliest years of Ancient Egypt. But now its new Egyptian galleries will let visitors discover far more about ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was ...

[STIRLING SHORTLIST IN DETAIL]: Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is restored and revamped by Rick Mather Architects The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology’s original 17th-century building was described ...

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