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5 unusual facts about Ashmolean museum


Charles William Dyson Perrins

Many other items from his collection were given or bequeathed by him to public institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, Winchester Cathedral library, and the British Museum.

Convent Thoughts

Combe bought the painting; in 1894 he bequeathed his art collection to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Convent Thoughts remains in the Museum's collection to the present day.

Ian Rank-Broadley

His works are on display throughout Europe and the US, at such places as the British Museum, London's National Portrait Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and several others.

Johann König

Other works of König are in Paris Louvre, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the art gallery in Berlin, the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe in National Museum of Germanic in Nuremberg and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Leverton, Berkshire

The hamlet also retains a set of stocks though the originals were removed to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in the 1990s and were replaced by a (non-functioning) replica.


Ashmolean Museum University Engagement Programme

The University Engagement Programme of the Ashmolean Museum (the UEP) was established at the University of Oxford in 2012 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Chigi Chapel

The original cartoons were lost but some preparatory drawings, that confirm the originality of the work, survived in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Lille.

Dirk Obbink

This project is working to capture digitised images of Greek and Latin papyri held by the Ashmolean Museum (the Oxyrhynchus Papyri), and the Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples (the carbonized scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum), for the creation of an Oxford bank of digitised images of papyri.

Marcantonio Sabatini

A caricature by Pier Leone Ghezzi of Sabbatini and Baron Philipp von Stosch, another renowned antiquary, closely examining engraved gems, is conserved in the Ashmolean museum.

Oriental Institute, Oxford

The Oriental Institute's main building is located on Pusey Lane behind the Ashmolean Museum and Sackler Library, but some parts of the faculty have their own buildings elsewhere in and around Oxford.

Pasherienptah III

Two of his stelas are known, the one with a hieroglyphic inscription is in the Ashmolean Museum (Ash. M. 1971/18), the other, Demotic stela, of which only seven fragments have been found, is in the British Museum (BM 886).

Piye

Piye's Highest known Date was long thought to be the Year 24 III Akhet day 10 date mentioned in the "Smaller Dakhla Stela" (Ashmolean Museum No.1894) from his reign.


see also

Oriental Institute, Oxford

Department of Egyptology and the Ancient Near East (also based at the Griffith Institute of the Ashmolean Museum)