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Linking with major museums and artists, ArtFinder's launch at the end of this month will reveal iPad, iPhone, Android and other smartphone apps for the National Gallery, Oxford's Ashmolean Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others.
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 'Ram of Amun' at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum In the current financial climate, it is a real coup to have completed this £5 million project, which comes two years after the big renovation of the museum in 2009.
More Beauty in Oxford Paul Levy 2011
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After its ambitious renovation, Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has begun to look like a major museum in a major city.
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The collection, something of a sensation, came to be known as Tradescant's Ark and served as the nucleus of what is today the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
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London was preceded by a quick trip to visit friends in Oxford, where I reacquainted myself with the Radcliffe Camera and the Ashmolean Museum, and saw a tiny, perfect exhibition of armillary spheres and other navigational and scientific instruments exquisitely fashioned of brass at the Museum of the History of Science or Old Ashmolean.
London Young Geoffrion 2007
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London was preceded by a quick trip to visit friends in Oxford, where I reacquainted myself with the Radcliffe Camera and the Ashmolean Museum, and saw a tiny, perfect exhibition of armillary spheres and other navigational and scientific instruments exquisitely fashioned of brass at the Museum of the History of Science or Old Ashmolean.
Archive 2007-09-01 Young Geoffrion 2007
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"In 1755, some seventy years after the last dodo's death, the director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford decided that the institution's stuffed dodo was becoming unpleasantly musty and ordered it be tossed into a bonfire." [p. 564] This was the last specimen left in existence.
BOOK REVIEW FROM THE EDGE OF THE PLANET: Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING 2007
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She put her bike into the rack outside the Ashmolean Museum, locked it, and walked across the road, pausing to buy a copy of the Oxford Chronicle from the newsstand before she went into the Randolph Hotel.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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London was preceded by a quick trip to visit friends in Oxford, where I reacquainted myself with the Radcliffe Camera and the Ashmolean Museum, and saw a tiny, perfect exhibition of armillary spheres and other navigational and scientific instruments exquisitely fashioned of brass at the Museum of the History of Science or Old Ashmolean.
London Young Geoffrion 2007
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London was preceded by a quick trip to visit friends in Oxford, where I reacquainted myself with the Radcliffe Camera and the Ashmolean Museum, and saw a tiny, perfect exhibition of armillary spheres and other navigational and scientific instruments exquisitely fashioned of brass at the Museum of the History of Science or Old Ashmolean.
Archive 2007-09-01 Young Geoffrion 2007
chained_bear commented on the word Ashmolean Museum
Brief story of its origins can be found on connoisseur.
December 28, 2016