See also: Exhibitions, Lectures and Family Events
Ashmolean Museum Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH Website Tel: 01865 278000
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm Wheelchair friendly.
The Ashmolean is owned by the University of Oxford and celebrated its 300th anniversary in 1983. It is ...read more
One of the oldest public museums in the world - big and absorbing enough to get thoroughly lost in.
See also: Lunchtime Gallery Talks and a bit more on The Ashmolean.
Cast Gallery off St John Street, back of the Ashmolean OX1 2PH Website Tel: 01865 278079
Opening Hours: Tue-Fri 10-4, Sat 10-1 Wheelchair friendly.
Large collection of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture. ...read more
Christ Church Picture Gallery Christ Church (entrance via Canterbury Gate / Oriel Square) OX1 1PD Website Tel: 01865 276172
Opening Hours: Now closed on Tuesdays from October to June. 1 Oct - 30 Apr: Mon, Wed-Sat: 10.30am-1pm & 2-4.30pm; Sun: 2-4.30pm. June: Mon, Wed-Sat: 10.30am-5pm; Sun 2-5pm. Jul, Aug, Sep: Mon-Sat: 10.30am-5pm; Sun: 2-5pm.
CHRISTMAS CLOSURE 2011: 23 DEC - 8 JAN. Reopen 9 Jan 2012. Changing selections from the colleges collection ...read more
Science Oxford Live 1 - 5 London Place
St Clements OX4 1BD Website Tel: 01865 810000
Opening Hours: Saturdays, 10am to 5pm, during Term Time; Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, during local school holidays. Wheelchair friendly.
Small but groovy and well-funded exhibition and event space, where you - sorry, your kids - can play ...read more
Science gallery with exciting interactive experiments and regular themed activities. Suitable for 5-12 year olds. Adults £5, concs/children £3.50, family £15 (4 people, including at least one adult).
Modern Art Oxford 30 Pembroke Street
Oxford OX1 1BP Website Tel: 01865 722733
Opening Hours: Closed Mon. Tue & Wed: 10am-5pm. Thu, Fri & Sat: 10am-10pm. Sun: 12pm-5pm. Wheelchair friendly.
Oxford's main modern art gallery. Exhibitions, talks and tours, live music, performance and film screenings. ...read more
Museum of the History of Science Old Ashmolean Building
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3AZ Website Tel: 01865 277280
Opening Hours: 12-5pm Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm Sat, 2-5pm Sun.
Small but perfectly-formed museum full of instruments and curiosities from 500 years of scientific investigations ...read more
A University museum - full of exciting and weird scientific instruments. A blackboard written on by Einstein always provides a popular gawp, but the best collection is one of astrolabes - sort of medieval Arabic calculators. Lots of evening events and talks too.
Museum of Oxford St Aldates Oxford OX1 1DZ Website Tel: 01865 252761
CLOSED, due to relocation to galleries within Oxford Town Hall, from Oct 2011 - spring 2012. ...read more
Oxford City Council's Museum of the history of Oxford.
Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PP Website Tel: 01865 270927
Opening Hours: Mon 12-4.30pm, Tue-Sun & BH 10am-4.30pm. Wheelchair friendly.
One of the UK's foremost anthropological collections, bringing together extraordinary items from all ...read more
Anthropological delights. Excellent website with virtual exhibits.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PW Website Tel: 01865 272970
Opening Hours: 10am - 5pm daily. Free entry. Wheelchair friendly.
The museum housed in a purpose-built Victorian Gothic building inspired by Ruskin and recently restored. ...read more
Dinosaur skeletons and live invertebrate exhibits: a great place to take children. Spectacular building.
Unlocked - Oxford Castle 44-46 Oxford Castle
Oxford OX1 1AY Website Tel: 01865 260666
Opening Hours: 10am-5.30pm daily Wheelchair friendly.
This funky modernist café next to Oxford Prison museum encouraged great expectations. However, ...read more
Walled site used for incarceration between 1071-1996, now open to the public as an exhibition space and learning centre. Read reviews of tours at Oxford Castle - Unlocked
