Ashmolean Museum

Biography The museum was founded in 1683 and is part of the University of Oxford. Today it has extensive displays of fine art, antiquities, eastern art etc. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 29/03/2007]

Biography References http://www.ashmolean.org/ / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean

County Oxfordshire / Northamptonshire / London [Greater] / Buckinghamshire / Somerset

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeology

Collected around Up to 1954

Dates active to present

Donated around Up to 1954

English collections Shoes, sword, thermometer, vessel, model ships, medal, shield, fire and light accessories, crucibles, dominoes, cards, stone tools, horse shoes, iron knife, arrow head, purse

Institution Yes

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 228

Connections C.C. Bristow / Peter John Jarbo / William John Burchell / Anna Burchell / George Clark / Robert Seppings / Cyril Jackson / Samuel Hellier / Lieutenant Cole / Miss Golightly / Charles Pourtales Golightly / I.C.G. Campbell / George Augustus Rowell / Arthur John Evans / F.J. Brown / George Dow / A.E. Bruerton / John Maunsell Frampton May / Mrs L. M. Neale / Donald Benjamin Harden / M. [Michael] & N. Hanhart