Museums and Collections

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

St Aldates, Oxford. Tel: 01865 276139.

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 2pm-5pm and Saturday during Term time only 10am-12pm.

Oxfordshire Museum

Park Street, Woodstock, Oxford OX20 1SN.
Tel: 01993 811456.
Web: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

Opening Times: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Sunday 2pm-5pm.
Adults £2.50 Children 50p.

University Museum of Natural History

Parks Road, Oxford.
Tel: 01865 270949.

Houses the University's scientific collections of zoological, entomological, geological, palaeontological and mineralogical specimens, accumulated in the course of the last three centuries.

Open: Daily 12 to 5pm. Free Admission.

Ashmolean Museum

Beaumont Street, Oxford. Tel: 01865 278000.
Web: www.ashmolean.org

Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum (till 2008)

This exhibition will provide visitors with an extraordinary overview of the Museum's treasures displayed alongside one another. Two hundred of the most significant objects from the collections of Antiquities, Eastern Art and Coins will be exhibited throughout the period of the redevelopment of the Ashmolean.

Museum of the History of Science

Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ.
Tel: 01865 277280.
Web: www.mhs.ox.ac.uk

Open: 12-4 Tue-Sat and 2-5 Sun.

Time and Place: English Country Clocks, 1600-1840

From Saturday 25th November
Open: Mon - Sat Admission: £2 Adults, Children 50p, Conc £1.50
An exhibition arranged in collaboration with the Antiquarian Horological Society, which illustrates the regional distinctiveness of provincial clock making, as well as its evolution over time. These clocks from private collections are not normally on public display. They show the variety of styles that emerged with the increasing demand for locally made clocks, as well as the influences of science, manufacturing technology and fashion.

The Museum of Oxford

St Aldates, Oxford. Tel: 01865 252761.
Web: www.museumofoxford.org.uk

Open: 10am-4pm Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm Sat, 12pm-4pm Sun.

Exploring Space (Till Sunday 28 January 2007)

Admission: Free

How many stars are there in our galaxy? What do astronauts eat? How far away is the moon? How hot is it at the centre of the Sun? Discover the wonders of the galaxy in Exploring Space! This hands-on exhibition includes cosmonaut’s clothing, ancient astronomical instruments and space technology from Oxfordshire’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Oxfordshire Museum

Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxford.
Tel: 01993 814104
Web: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/the_oxfordshire_museum

Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Sun 2pm-5pm. Last entry 4.30pm

Pitt Rivers Museum

University Of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford.
Tel: 01865 270927.
Web: www.prm.ox.ac.uk

Opening Hours: Daily 12.00 - 4.30pm. Free admission.

Treasured Textiles - Cloth and Clothing Around the World (Till April 2007)

An exhibition of textiles and costumes which celebrates the vibrancy of pattern created through weaving, printing, dyeing and stitching techniques. A highlight of the show will be Indian women’s clothing made in Mexico and Guatemala in the 1930s. Gloriously decorative in colour and design, the patterning was developed through hand weaving with additional ornament in brocading, appliqué or embroidery.

River & Rowing Museum

Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames RG9 1BF.
Tel: 01491 415600.
Web: www.rrm.co.uk