Daily Photo - Amarna at the Ashmolean
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Daily Photo - Amarna at the Ashmolean


The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a rather fine collection of Amarna artefacts. Most of them are fragments, and incomplete, but they are all lovely - a testimony to the artists and craftsmen who designed and produced them. If you live in (or are visiting) the UK and are thinking of visiting the museum do be sure to phone first on +44(0)1865 288016 - they are undergoing a major re-fit and galleries are often closed.










- Egyptian Galleries At Ashmolean To Close For Refurbishment
This Is Oxfordshire A £5m redevelopment at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum to showcase the museum’s world famous collections from ancient Egypt has been given planning permission by Oxford City Council. Work will begin immediately to transform the Egyptian...

- Plans To Refurbish Egyptian Galleries At The Ashmolean
Oxford Mail (Reg Little) A £5M redevelopment is being planned at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum to showcase the museum’s world famous collections from ancient Egypt. Only eight months after the new Ashmolean was opened by the Queen following a £61m...

- Museums
Neues Museum re-openening http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/berlin-neues-museum-reopens/story?id=8859496 For the first time since WWII all of the galleries of Berlin's Neues Museum are open to the public, as of 16th October. It has been closed since 1939...

- Ashmolean Museum Egyptian Galleries
http://www.ashmolean.org/plan/galleryclosures/ I am planning a visit to Oxford (U.K.) to see the Egyptian galleries at the Ashmo, so I gave them a quick call to make sure that the galleries are actually open during the £61-million redevelopment. The...

- The Ashmolean Rebuild
http://snipurl.com/jntm "Behind its elegant façade, the state of Oxford's Ashmolean has long been an embarrassment - but a £49m rebuild is about to change that, says Giles Worsley. The Ashmolean in Oxford is one of the great museum buildings of...



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