Wed 18 Feb 2026, 10.30am or 2pm At the Museum Half-day practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio Choose from two available times: 10.30am–1pm OR 2–4.30pm. Each session will be the same workshop. Please note this workshop is now fully booked. Tickets are £65 each for each half-day session. With Asma Hashmi, Printmaker A hands-on printmaking […]
Tue 17 Feb 2026, 3–4pm At the Museum An Exclusive Event for Members of the Ashmolean Booking is essential. Tickets are £15 for this in-person event. Please note this event is now fully booked. This tour will be led by Rosalind Sword, a porcelain collector and author of the catalogue on the Marshall Collection of Worcester […]
Sat 14 & Sun 15 Feb 2026 11am–4pm Bringing together communities and faiths of Oxfordshire Join us as we celebrate the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire with a dazzling array of activities, performances, talks, and crafts for all ages, taking place throughout the Museum. This year’s theme for our annual One World Family Festival […]
Sat 14 & Sun 15 Feb 2026 11am–4pm Bringing together communities and faiths of Oxfordshire Join us as we celebrate the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire with a dazzling array of activities, performances, talks, and crafts for all ages, taking place throughout the Museum. This year’s theme for our annual One World Family Festival […]
The Drawing Project is a collaborative work involving sixteen artists and two paintings from the Ashmolean Museum: The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo and The Exposition of Moses by Nicholas Poussin. The aim was to produce drawings that worked collectively as well as individually. The artists produced drawings which were then assembled to become full-scale representations of the original […]
With Oxfordshire poets Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will explore and celebrate the Museum’s pieces, renowned or recherche, intriguing or glorious and newly-acquired artworks. Poems will be recited next to the objects and artworks that inspired the poets. If you want to talk to the poets, most of us are friendly! The February tour will […]
Fri 6 Feb 2026, 1pm & 3pm At the Museum With Dr Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art This event takes place in-person only, in the Japan 1600–1850 Gallery 37 At 1pm OR 3pm. Each session lasts one hour Tickets are £12. Booking is essential. Please note the event is now fully booked. This is […]
Wed 4 Feb 2026, 10.30am–4pm At the Museum One-day practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio. Tickets are £105 each. Booking is essential. Please note this workshop (a repeat of the Oct 2025 one) is now also fully booked. With artist Kieran Stiles One of Scotland's most popular artists, Joan Eardley enhanced three-dimensional forms in […]
What do we really know about the plants and flowers in our gardens and window boxes? Beyond their beauty, many have hidden histories – tales of exploration, obsession, and knowledge. This major new exhibition takes visitors on a journey from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind […]
Pat Suet-Bik Hui 許雪碧 (b. 1943) is a US-based Hong Kong artist. This exhibition showcases her work alongside others who engage with the tradition of the 'three perfections' 三絕, which brings together the three art forms of poetry, calligraphy, and painting. The exhibition includes works by Hui, her contemporaries, her teacher Lui Shou-Kwan and others […]
As we grapple with the possibilities and excesses of our image-obsessed culture, this free exhibition looks back at the way in which a specific kind of image – portraits – dominated the lives of three contemporaneous rulers: Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834), King George III (1760–1820), and Napoleon Bonaparte (1799–1814). Juxtaposing portraits on different media from across Iran, Britain and France, […]
This exhibition focuses on sculptures by Irish artist Daphne Wright and has been curated by Ashmolean director, Xa Sturgis. Conceived in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, the exhibition will feature several new works which consider the tradition of still lifes and respond to the sculptures in our Cast Gallery. Daphne Wright works in […]
