10 Museums in Oxford That You Shouldn't Miss

The Glass Tank gallery space showcases the work, talent and research of Oxford Brookes University's students, staff and alumni. The gallery is a public facing platform and promotes a healthy creative output for Oxford Brookes University culture. Situated in the heart of Oxford Brookes' Headington campus, the gallery is a hub of excitement within the new Abercrombie extension. Major international standing exhibitions have and continue to fill up the Glass Tank's programme. The gallery is situated next to the Abercrombie cafe where visitors can relax and unwind with a hot drink or some food.

Art gallery based at Christ Church College, Oxford University, contains an impressive collection of Old Masters paintings and drawing, with an emphasis on Italian art from the 14th to the 18th century.The internationally renowned drawings collection in the Picture Gallery at Christ Church is regarded as one of the most important private collections of Old Master drawings in the country and includes work by the masters; Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Raphael and Rubens. For reasons of conservation the entire drawings collection cannot be permanently on show, but a selection of drawings is always on view. These small in-house exhibitions are changed about every three months to enable the public to see a varied selection from this part of the collection. Please refer to website for opening hours.

The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Our world famous collections range from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art, telling human stories across cultures and across time. The Museum is open every day, 10am–5pm. Admission is free.

For music-lovers everywhere: this specialty museum houses a fine collection of historical woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, plus more than one dozen historical keyboard instruments and a complete bow-maker's workshop.

The Museum of Natural History houses the University's scientific collections of geological and zoological specimens. The Museum itself is a Grade 1 listed building, renowned for its spectacular neo-Gothic architecture. Among its most famous features are the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the dodo, and the swifts in the tower.

The Pitt Rivers Museum is one of Oxford’s most popular attractions, famous for its period atmosphere and outstanding collections from many cultures around the world, past and present.

Aidan Meller is Oxford's longest established specialist art gallery dealing in Modern, Contemporary and Old Master. Established 1998. Aidan Meller features work from John Constable, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and many others. This diverse collection is supported by Aidan’s 20 years of experience in the art world and gives collectors access to the best examples of original work by the world’s most acclaimed masters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Exhibitions in 2016 have included the Bloomsbury Set, Calder and Miro, School of Paris, Victorian, and Old Master.

The Weston Library offers free, inspiring exhibitions featuring the libraries’ rich collections, a unique gift shop and a lovely café set against the backdrop of the floating book stacks in its atrium, Blackwell Hall. Formerly known as the New Bodleian, the recently refurbished building is the home of the Bodleian Libraries special collections, it is also a busy working library that houses several reading rooms, a research centre, a conservation studio and much more.

Founded in 1997 and open 7 days a week we are a traditional award winning antiques centre carrying a diverse range of Antiques and Vintage stock including, costume jewellery, silverware, books, antiquities, lighting, maps, coins furniture, luggage, trunks, glassware, ceramics, vintage tins, postcards, brass and iron, precious stone jewellery, and much more, with something to appeal to just about everyone. Good business relationships with leading logistics companies enable us to ship any item anywhere in the world and we personally deliver all large furniture items free of charge within a 60 mile radius.