DURING YOUR VISIT
You can view around 15 objects or four archive volumes
Please come to the St Giles’ entrance of the Ashmolean at your appointed time to visit the study centre and ask Reception to call the Antiquities Department.
The centre is accessible via the Museum lifts
PHOTOGRAPHY
When visiting our study centre, please:
- make sure you have permission from the relevant Ashmolean curator if you wish to take photographs
- only take photographs for private use or study; permission is needed for any form of publication as these objects are under copyright (you can contact the Picture Library for instructions about ordering and reproducing images).
Enquiries regarding photography for image orders and reproduction rights should be sent to the Picture Library, and more information can be found here https://www.ashmolean.org/ordering-images
CURATORIAL COVER
Reduced curatorial cover for the European Prehistory and Archive collections in 2025
The curator of these collections will be on research sabbatical leave and unable to respond to enquiries during the period January - October 2025. While the Department will make every effort to provide access to the archaeological and catalogued archival collections during this period, we regret that it will not be possible to respond to enquiries that require specialist knowledge.
General enquiries about the collections should be addressed to antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk and more information may be found through our online collections pages.
OFFSITE COLLECTIONS
Part of the Antiquities collections, including large groups of archaeological material, is held offsite and currently being relocated to new storage facilities. This major project, involving all the University museums, is due for completion in 2027. During this period, some material may not be accessible for research or other purposes. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
