Ashmolean Museum
GB
museum in Oxford, England, UK
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the establishment of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1661 by the University of Basel.
Works
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
1600c
Page from a dispersed muraqqa‘, or album, depicting a seated youth playing a string instrument
1600c
Page from a dispersed muraqqa‘, or album, depicting a youth in European dress holding a carafe
1800c