In bloom: How plants changed our world – a 'consistently illuminating' exhibition

The Ashmolean’s show presents a ‘mix of the wonderful, the weird and the downright wacky’ of the plant world ...
Artnet

An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest

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 ...
Artnet

How Much Does It Cost to Put on a Jeff Koons Show? Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Just Spent $1 Million

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 ...
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Ashmolean’s ‘In Bloom’ and Esquire’s recent book picks showcase cultural range

Oxford blooms: The Ashmolean’s ‘In Bloom’ charts centuries of botanical influence, from Tradescant’s 17th-century plant collecting to contemporary floral artworks. Literary highlights: Esquire’s ...
The Financial Times

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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 ...
Architects' Journal

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology by Rick Mather Architects

[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 ...