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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Oxford, England — The words “musty” and “fusty” are often trotted out to describe much about Oxford, and not always derogatorily. Visitors who flock to this college town often come in ...

A spectacular new series of galleries showcasing world-renowned Egyptian collections of 40,000 artefacts has opened at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The vast £5million Egyptian galleries feature ...

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Wu Guanzhong's Wuxu and Lake Tai (1973) is part of the Sullivan collection The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has announced the acquisition of one of the world's most significant collections of modern ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is the oldest publicly accessible museum in the world, and it’s now home to one of the world’s most popular and in-your-face artists: Jeff Koons. There are only 17 items in ...

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 ...