CHANGE MAKERS TOURS: 10 MAY 2025

Explore remarkable objects that changed history on these gallery tours

Sat 10 May, 3–4pm
At the Museum
Create and Transform season 2025 icon

Change Makers Tours are available on multiple dates

Each tour lasts one hour, capacity is 15 people per tour

Meet in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery, Gallery 21

Tickets are £10. Booking is essential. See below

Each tour will be led by Museum gallery facilitators

Join us for a one-hour tour as part of Create and Transform, a season of events and displays at the Ashmolean.

Explore how change has reshaped art, culture, and history, and consider how our collections transform both our understanding and the world around us. Various dates are available to choose from.

Visitors on a gallery tour

Visitors on tour in the Museum

On the tour, we’ll uncover artistic, social, and religious transformations through key objects in our collection. Reflect on how different cultures and periods of history have been shaped and transformed by change.

Highlights include:

  • Japanese Samurai armour
  • Oxford Crown coin
  • The Deposition by Van Dyck
  • A Bishop Saint by Michele Giovanni Boni ('Giambono')
  • Sumerian King List cuneiform cylinder
  • Christ Among the Doctors by Jacopo Da Ponte ('Bassano')

This tour invites you to engage with thought-provoking insights and reflect on the lasting impact of transformation across time.

There are more Change Makers Tours on these dates (links will be added shortly)

Sat 22 Mar: 2–3pm
Sat 29 Mar: 3–4pm
Sun 6 Apr: 2–3pm
Sun 13 Apr: 3–4pm
Sat 3 May: 2–3pm
Sun 1 Jun: 2–3pm
Sun 22 Jun: 3–4pm

These tours are part of the Create & Transform season of events.

BOOKING

Tickets are £10 each for each tour. 

TICKETS COMING SHORTLY

Please email publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk to register your interest ahead of ticket sales