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🖼 🏺🏛 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art. 🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm.
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Joined May 2010
📣 NOW OPEN This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Thom Yorke . Explore the visual art of these creative forces and the iconic images of Radiohead. Book your tickets: Ashmolean Members enjoy unlimited FREE entry.
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Interested in taking part in One World Festival 2026?. Join us in creating a lively celebration that highlights the diverse talents within our local community and forges connection with family audiences. Whether you're an artist, musician, storyteller, have a passion for craft,
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Don't miss Stanley Donwood in conversation with associate curator Natasha Podro, Friday 26 September, 6-7pm. They'll discuss Donwood's long-standing creative partnership with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, the subject of our new exhibition, This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood,
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Discover artistic responses to the music and art of Radiohead, created by the talented students of @Cheney_School :
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We were so excited to work with @AshmoleanMuseum on a project for their forthcoming @radiohead exhibition! Y11 and 12s @Cheney_School composed songs, poems and art inspired by Radiohead songs and album covers. You can explore their creations here!
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Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke saw each record as a new opportunity to try something different and embrace risk. For OK Computer, the challenge was to create all artwork on a computer without using the ‘undo’ function. ‘Instead we would overlay another image, or scratch out
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A new proposal from @CMSgov under @DrOz wants to add catheters, ostomy & trach supplies to Medicare’s competitive bidding program. This is a bad idea and will worsen outcomes for seniors & Medicare recipients. My latest in @MedPageToday explains why ⬇️
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Limiting urological, tracheostomy, and ostomy supply options will do more harm than good
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RT @AmbJapanUK: Paddington was thrilled to see amazing Kabuki Kimono exhibition!! Actually worn by Bando Tamasaburo in his legendary perfo….
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RT @BBCOxford: The story behind Radiohead's The Bends album cover
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Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood reveal it was created after they sneaked into a hospital basement.
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Our 2025 Annual Appeal celebrates bringing history to life. With your help, the Ashmolean can continue creating inspiring exhibitions, immersive displays, and learning experiences that share our extraordinary collections with visitors today and for generations to come. A
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Let's take a closer look at this delightful little owl sketched by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and beautifully animated by Grace Oldman in our latest video. This owl appeared in a letter Edward Burne-Jones wrote and illustrated in the late 1800s. ✏️ An owl on a
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Tesla proposes $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. If all tranches hit — $TSLA would be valued at $8.5 trillion. Our traders now forecast:.• 82% chance of robotaxi public release in 2025.• 44% chance Optimus is on sale by 2026
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Twit-Twoo 😍. Animator and illustrator @ArtbyGraceO brings this characterful owl, sketched by Edward Burne-Jones, to life. Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones, was born on this day in 1833. This little owl appeared in a letter he wrote and illustrated in the late
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Step inside a record shop and you’ll be surrounded by artworks. This is something that Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke have always considered, always approaching album covers as works of art in themselves. Delve deeper into the work and stories behind the visual art of
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VACANCIES! We're looking for. 🔹 Curatorial Assistant, Greek Coins .🔸 Collections Manager, Coin Room .🔹 Senior Manager, Digital Collections Systems .🔸 Archivist and Records Manager .🔹 Research Assistant, Japanese Collection.🔸 Retail Assistant .🔹 Senior Sales Assistant
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We are delighted to welcome contemporary artist Risham Syed, our 2025 Frere Hall South Asian artist-in-residence. Risham, the University of Oxford’s second Pakistani artist resident, will be based within our Department of Eastern Art to closely view and handle objects in the
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Foundation models are stuck in the past, but they intentionally produce natural-sounding and varied responses. These can lead to hallucinations. We explore the limitations of foundation models and how RAG can address these so chat, search, and agentic workflows can all benefit.
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Take a walk through our Music and Tapestry gallery and you’ll discover this spectacular tapestry ‘Monstrous Threaded Membranes’ by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. Yorke and Donwood have always played with media, combining technological and analogue methods, and moving between
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RT @OxfordGiving: From ancient Rome to the Etruscans, the @AshmoleanMuseum’s transformed galleries bring history to life for visitors today….
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📣 Don't miss Cheung Yee and His 1960s Hong Kong Contemporaries, closing 7 September. This free exhibition showcases newly-acquired works by the Hong Kong artist Cheung Yee (1936–2019). It is the first substantial display of his work outside Hong Kong, including sculpture and
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An evening of technical drawing by candlelight and an accident with spilt wax led to a period of experimentation resulting in the artwork for Radiohead’s album In Rainbows. This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Thom Yorke takes you behind the scenes and reveals the
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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RT @CathleenRMurray: The Dutch and Flemish still life room in the @AshmoleanMuseum has always been one my favourite museum spaces. https://….
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Daphne Wright works in unfired clay and jesmonite and has long experimented with casting. Her pieces explore the fragility and impermanence of life and the importance of history, inheritance and memory in the forging of our identities. Our current Ashmolean NOW exhibition
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Happy Book Lovers Day 📖 💕. Designed to look like a book, this ceramic object is actually a flask or hand warmer. Objects like this are thought to have been filled with hot water or coal to warm the hands of the wearer on a cold winter's day. They functioned as a sort of
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