For a free outdoor day out, Windsor Great Park is open throughout half term, offering woodland walks, picnic spots and wide ...

Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...

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The Ashmolean closed for 10 months throughout 2009 for a major £63m redevelopment project The UK's oldest public museum has reported welcoming one million annual visitors for the first time in 16 ...

The UK's oldest public museum has reported welcoming one million annual visitors for the first time in 16 years. The Ashmolean, which is the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, ...

This is What You Get, by Stanley Donwood, Thom Yorke, Lena Fritsch, Alex Farquharson, Nico Kos Earl, Benjamin Myers, Mark Radcliffe, published by the Ashmolean Museum For three decades I have enjoyed ...

When Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead signed their first record deal in 1991, Yorke found himself feeling “embarrassment” at leaving his training as a visual artist behind in favor of “making ...

Famous pairings have yielded some of music’s most recognisable and celebrated artworks. Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground. Peter Blake and The Beatles. Storm Thorgerson and Pink Floyd. Arguably ...

This bronze jar on display at the Ashmolean Museum contained a mysterious substance (shown in the foreground) that is very likely ancient honey. Decades ago, archaeologists discovered a sticky ...

SIR ARTHUR EVANS has presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of which he was keeper for a period of twenty-five years ending in 1908, his unique collection of Minoan sealstones and gems, gold rings ...