Ashmolean Museum
RecommendedThe world's first university museum — free, with major collections of art and archaeology.
Oxford est l'une des villes d'Angleterre les plus adaptees aux familles, et la plupart des attractions majeures sont gratuites. Le Natural History Museum possede un squelette complet de T-Rex et une galerie de mineraux qui brillent sous les ultraviolets. Le Pitt Rivers Museum, juste a cote, est un cabinet de curiosites qui fascine les enfants : tetes reduites, totems, marionnettes d'ombre et sorcieres en bouteille. Les deux musees sont entierement gratuits.
Christ Church est le college ou Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) enseignait les mathematiques. On y trouve partout des traces d'Alice au pays des merveilles : la petite porte dans le grand hall, la cheminee qui a inspire le chat du Cheshire, et en face, Alice's Shop — le "Old Sheep Shop" de De l'autre cote du miroir, qui vend aujourd'hui des souvenirs sur le theme du pays des merveilles.
Quand les enfants debordent d'energie, direction Port Meadow — une vaste prairie commune ancestrale ou ils peuvent courir, patauger dans la Tamise et observer les chevaux et les vaches. La barque a perche (punting) sur la Cherwell depuis le Jardin botanique convient aux enfants plus ages ; le troncon qui passe par University Parks est calme et peu profond. Le Covered Market plait a tous les ages : les cookies de Ben's Cookies pour amadouer les petits, les boucheries pour preparer un pique-nique, et assez d'espace couvert pour les jours de pluie.
The world's first university museum — free, with major collections of art and archaeology.
A specialist collection of historical musical instruments, from medieval to modern.
One of the oldest libraries in Europe — the Divinity School, Duke Humfrey's Library, and the Radcliffe Camera.
Hertford College's 1914 covered skyway over New College Lane — Oxford's most photographed bridge, despite resembling neither of the actual Bridges of Sighs.
The 23-metre Saxon-medieval tower at the centre of Oxford — climb 99 steps for a four-way panorama.
Oxford's own ice cream since 1992 — handmade, inventive, and open past midnight.
Scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum.
The bench at the back of the Botanic Garden where, in the closing chapter of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Lyra and Will promise to sit at noon on Midsummer's day every year.
Sir Gilbert Scott's 1843 Gothic-Revival monument to Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley — the three Oxford Martyrs burned for heresy in 1555–1556.
Oxford's contemporary art gallery — free, ambitious exhibitions in the heart of the city.
Norman castle (1071) and former Victorian prison — the medieval mound, St George's Tower, and 1,000 years of overlapping use.
Dinosaurs, dodos, and Darwin's legacy — all under a Gothic Revival iron-and-glass roof.
A Victorian cabinet of curiosities — shrunken heads, totem poles, and half a million objects from every culture on earth.
James Gibbs's English Palladian rotunda (1749) — the first circular library in the country and the most photographed building in Oxford.
A brass-plaqued bench in University Parks, dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) by the Tolkien Centenary Conference in 1992 — accompanied by two trees said to represent Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor.
The site, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, of the Pinus nigra under which J.R.R. Tolkien 'often spent his time reposing'.
The University's church on the High Street, with one of the best tower views in Oxford and a 13th-century spire.
City cemetery opened in 1889. The Roman Catholic section contains the grave of J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith, headstone inscribed Beren and Lúthien.
Authentic Italian gelato in the Covered Market.