Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire UK OX1 2PH.

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Detail of the Freize on the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire UK OX1 2PH. The original museum was opened on 24th May 1683 with a collection presented to the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole (1617–92). The contents were "universal in scope, with man-made and natural specimens from every corner of the known world". With the expansion of the collection the handsome neo-classical structure in Beaumont Street was erected in which the University's art collections has been housed since its opening in 1845. The transfer of material to the new extension was completed in 1894 and in 1908 the various collections merged to form the institution that survives in those premises to the present day, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.

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Location: Oxford, UK
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