SLOW ART DAY TOUR 2025

Sat 12 Apr 2025, 2–3.30pm

At the Museum

This event is onsite only. The tour is one hour long, with time after for tea and cakes.

Tickets are £12. Booking is essential. Book below

Led by Lynne Ward & Jude Barrett, Ashmolean Informal Learning Team

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see' – Henry David Thoreau

One day each year people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. That’s it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.

So come and join us to look at five works of art in the Museum for 10 minutes each, and then meet together to talk about your experience over tea and cakes.

View within the Ashmolean Story Gallery in the Museum

The Ashmolean Story Gallery. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

It'll be a surprise which artworks you see on the day, but our five chosen works will link to our Making a Mark season of events by looking at different ways in which artists have made their mark in creating their work.

About Slow Art Day

Founded in 2010, Slow Art Day is a global event (more than 1,500 museums and galleries have participated) with a simple mission: help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art.