Inside Ashmolean
The award-winning architect Rick Mather has designed a new building, replacing all but the Grade I listed Cockerell building. The redevelopment cost £61m, doubling the existing gallery space. These changes mark the latest upgrades to the UK's oldest public museum, with its origins dating back...
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- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month agoOxford's extraordinary old treasure chest revels in its new incarnation The Ashmolean's curators have been truly bold. Old favourites gain new depth as chronology gives way to svelte modernism In 1634 a young man home on leave from the East India...
- News Source: BBC | about 1 month agoThe award-winning architect Rick Mather has designed a new building, replacing all but the Grade I listed Cockerell building. The redevelopment cost £61m, doubling the existing gallery space. These changes mark the latest upgrades to the UK's oldest...
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- Blog Source: theartsblogs.comTradescant's collection was to form the basis of Oxford's Ashmolean, claimed as the earliest modern museum in the world. Those of us familiar with the old place recall wandering its dusty passages and cramped chambers, where ghosts of ...
- Blog Source: www.culture24.org.ukThis week the Ashmolean in Oxford unveiled the results of a five-year redevelopment project which has given rise to stunning architecture and radical new display strategy Crossing Cultures Crossing Time.
- Blog Source: criticismism.wordpress.comThe £61m redevelopment at the Ashmolean Museum has made headlines this week, but another money-related story of no less interest can be found at the new building in Oxford. The museum is also home to a raft of coins ranking among the ...
- Blog Source: allaboutegypt.orgChristopher Brown, director of the museum since 1998, and Mather have not only brought fresh life to the Ashmolean; they have also given Oxford a fine new public place where visitors can meet, eat and while away rainy days rummaging ...
- Blog Source: dxdboise.netRick Mather gives Felix Mara a tour of his refurbished, expanded and well-articulated museum. Photography by Richard Bryant Original post by WP-AutoBlog Import.
- Blog Source: ridingthing.blogspot.comThe Ashmolean Museum reopens this weekend, scrubbed up, modernised, relevant for our modern times, or so we are told. This museum has framed my time in Oxford. Recently, I've sat in my office in the Sackler Library cursing the noise ...
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