Ashmolean Museum

Awesome museum with exhibits from all over the world coving different era’s of human history. One of the best public museums in England they have some fabulous pieces especially the Roman sculptures.
This place is super historic its been open for more than 300 years. Best of all is totally free

I've been in April with my daughter, we spent there half of the day. The museum is impressive, a lot of interesting things to see from different eras of history and different countries. We really enjoyed everything, but the roman statues and the Egyptian hieroglyphs really caught my eye, and another things that I loved were the Stradivarius violins.

Great museum, filled with some lovely items from centuries past. Especially liked the mummies and their resting places. I noticed in this museum, more than any other I have visited, the amount of artifacts you can actually touch. We all know it's normally the opposite in museums but this one really wants you to touch and feel things. Loved that!

The best museum I have ever visited. Understand this museum in in Oxford centre so being a seat of learning caters for all points of history. Clean, spacious with helpful staff. Lifts to floors, gift shop and tea room, spotless throughout lockers for your bags open or lockable umbrella stands (yes lockable) and mobile lightweight seating if you wish to study by an exhibit or rest for a while. Truly a fine place to visit. My visit was to see the Alfred jewel and was not disappointed. A must to visit while in oxford. And to top it all off its FREE. to enter, so drop in and out anytime during the day. A light and airy place not a old traditional dark and dusty museum. Nice to see the young people of Oxford and others studying inside the museum around exhibits. Gave the place such a nice feel.

I absolutely love this museum. Spotlessly clean, spacious and so many interesting exhibits. Free admission but a donation is welcome. Shows arts and cultures from all over the world with some amazing pieces to admire. Clean well maintained toilets. Did not visit the cafe or gift shop so cannot comment.

So much to see here. 5 floors of history. There's different sections, for example, ancient Egypt, Asia, Rome etc
Very interesting, lots of crockery, clothing, tombs, pottery, gold, jewellery, clocks and many many other items.

We didn't purchase the map (£1) but I wish we had, it's like a maze as there's so many rooms.

Free to enter, although you can leave a donation. No booking required.

Has toilets and a cafe and lockers.

Went with my 3 year old. He did get bored but still enjoyed walking around looking at things.

Lots of seats to sit and rest.

They have actual Mummy tombs with bodies inside.

And old map embroidered onto a huge peice of fabric/rug.

This place is huge.

My husband loved it, not something I'm in to but I actually enjoyed it a little too. Very interesting.

We travelled up to Oxford specifically for this museum. My Husband has an interest in Japan and it's history and my daughter is currently learning about Egyptians in school.

We booked online, entry is free, and added on the family adventure for 4 (as well as donating which I hope everyone does to help such a wonderful museum).

The adventure tablets and headphones where superb, I'm so glad we added it on. The games where extremely child friendly, we was able to play games together at certain spots and individually whilst learning about certain pieces. My only slight gripe with this was, there was a section of find the paintings, one of the paintings we was searching for had actually been removed from the room, so we spent 10 minutes wandering before a kind member of the team there helped us. The order of the games was a bit odd, first going up to floor 3, then 2 back to 3 then 2 then 1. It didn't suit us personally, so we just started at the top and worked our way down and then when we got to certain parts included in the adventure we clicked on them. This was we was seeing everything instead of just actively looking at the tablet parts.

We was here a good 3 hours and could of spent longer but my youngest was getting tired. We had a pushchair and found the lifts quite small as a family group. The blue lift goes to certain floors then a pink lift for another. Easy to get to grips of and find when you've got your bearings.

The shop was fab, bit small with a pushchair and when busy I imagine. My daughter had some books and I had the gin (which was beautiful tasting!).

We're looking forward to visiting again.

The Ashmolean is a hidden gem found in Oxford! A completely free Museum of artifacts from ancient civilizations, as well as renaissance artworks and modern art, it is wonderfully kept and a real treat to see. Be sure to walk all the exhibits and learn lots, or go up to the top floor and take a peak through the gallery, which is quite a nice collection as well. Family friendly and a great afternoon activity for all, worth the visit.