Tagged: Art

The world's first university museum — free, with major collections of art and archaeology.

Old Master paintings and one of the finest collections of Italian drawings in Britain.

Antique maps, prints, and engravings on the High Street — established 1967.

A well-stocked museum shop — jewellery, prints, and design objects inspired by the Ashmolean's collection.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's most famous fiasco — Rossetti, Morris and Burne-Jones painted Arthurian scenes onto the bare brickwork of the Union's debating hall in 1857. The paint started peeling before the work was finished.