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This Week in History: the Ashmolean Museum

This Week in History: the Ashmolean Museum

by David Tollen | May 29, 2020 | The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age

This week in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology opened in Oxford. It was the world’s first university museum and was named after Elias Ashmole, who in 1677 had given Oxford University what became the museum’s first collection. Construction also...
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