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Get a visual preview of the Ashmolean Museum's impressive spaces and diverse collections before your visit to Oxford. This gallery highlights the grand architecture and displays featuring ancient civilizations, classical casts, and European art. Take a look inside to plan your journey through thousands of years of human history.

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Oil painting showing a standing woman in a red dress playing a violin while a seated woman in a green dress reads a scroll, set against a landscape background.
Neoclassical facade of the Ashmolean Museum with a columned portico, triangular pediment with a statue on top, and two teal banners reading MUSEUM and ASHMOLEAN hanging between the columns
Oil painting of a young girl in a blue dress and white blouse sitting on a wooden chair holding a fan, with a stove visible in the background.
Oil painting of a village landscape with white houses, green trees, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.
The Alfred Jewel, an ornate Anglo-Saxon gold and enamel artifact with a rock crystal cover depicting a robed figure in green and blue enamel, set in a teardrop-shaped gold filigree frame with an animal-head terminal, against a black background
Paolo Uccello's Annunciation painting showing the angel Gabriel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in a blue arcade, with God the Father and a choir of angels above against a gold background.
Impressionist painting of people walking on a garden path surrounded by trees with dappled sunlight.
White marble Roman statue of a winged youth Eros leaning on a tall column against a dark red background
Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary in a red dress and black veil holding the Christ child in a yellow tunic, set against a landscape background.
Classical stone building with tall columns supporting a triangular pediment topped with a statue, entrance steps with people walking, banners hanging from columns, and a courtyard with railings under a partly cloudy sky.
Painting of a crowded London Bridge at night with red banners on tall poles, glowing gas lamps, and dense crowds celebrating under a dark sky
Shield-shaped stone ceremonial palette from Hierakonpolis with carved intertwined serpents, animal figures, and a central circular depression, photographed against a white background.
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