The Ashmolean – the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology – was founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683, when it became the world’s first public museum. If over three centuries of history ...

It was the outside of the Ashmolean that attracted me first. For a year in the late 1950s, as a junior research fellow at Balliol, I had rooms that looked out across St Giles. Every morning as I ...

This video takes you on an immersive journey through the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the world's first university museum and a treasure trove for any ancient history lover. The highlights feature an ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which holds the largest group of Raphael drawings in the world, is set to stage an exhibition of 125 drawings attributed to the Old Master, opening on June 1. Not since ...

Soma Surovi Jannat makes history as the first Bangladeshi artist to showcase her work in a solo exhibition titled “Climate, ...

Watercolors, Nikolaus Pevsner explained in his 1964 lecture “The Englishness of English Art,” enjoy in Britain a status “never equalled in any other country.” The reason, Pevsner suggested, is that ...

A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...

Four panels from series on the five senses, one of them rediscovered only last year, go on display in Oxford Four of Rembrandt’s earliest paintings, depicting sight, hearing, touch and smell, are ...

Jeff Koons is back. The American artist and art commerce kingpin has just opened his latest show at Oxford’s Ashmolean, the world’s oldest public museum. Seventeen significant works – 14 of which make ...

The moon landing, Mandela’s walk to freedom, the fall of the Berlin Wall... In an age of news saturation we’ve grown increasingly blasé about history being piped into our living rooms. How different ...

The Ashmolean's lively new exhibition hinges on the idea that the Victorians ushered in an all-new polychromatic age – but did they really? Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since ...