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Your online Membership Account gives you access to your digital Membership card which can be used like your physical card to verify your Membership at the Museum. You can also update your details, renew your Membership, and book/view tickets for exhibitions and events all in one place.

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Members enjoy priority booking, unlimited exhibition entry, and exclusive Members-only preview days.

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MEMBERSHIP FAQs

How much does Membership cost?

 
Direct Debit prices start at £48 a year, and will remain unchanged until 1 August 2025. Paying for your membership by Direct Debit still offers the best value, saving you at least £7. Direct Debit memberships also help us to keep administration costs down, whilst also ensuring no gap in your membership.

In the current economic climate, and with rising operational costs, we are more reliant than ever on self-generated income. In order to ensure that the Museum remains free for all, membership prices will be increasing from 27 May 2025. 

 

Membership Type

Prices
now
Individual £55
Individual Direct Debit £48
Joint £78
Joint Direct Debit £70
Individual + Guest £85
Individual + Guest Direct Debit £75
Joint + Guest  £138
Joint + Guest Direct Debit £125

 

Membership Type

Prices
from
1 Aug
2025
Individual £55
Individual Direct Debit £50
Joint £78
Joint Direct Debit £73
Individual + Guest £85
Individual + Guest Direct Debit £78
Joint + Guest  £138
Joint + Guest Direct Debit £130

 

We will contact you directly if your membership is coming up for renewal.

The Ashmolean thrives on philanthropy, and support from you as our Members helps us make sure we keep this world class institution of research, conservation and education stay free for everyone from around the world and from all walks of life. We thank our Members for their invaluable, continued support to the Ashmolean.

  

Entry to our ticketed exhibitions is free for Ashmolean Members. Advance booking for guaranteed entry is recommended, especially at busier times, but it is not essential. 

 

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Membership covers exhibition entry for any named Members (and one or two guests depending on membership type) and is not transferrable. Any non-Member guests not covered by your Membership will need to purchase tickets to our special exhibitions.

  

 

 Unlimited FREE Exhibition Entry for a Whole Year, PLUS additional free tickets for children*

 Exclusive Members-Only Preview Days

 Priority Booking Period for Exhibitions

 Members-Only Events

 Shop, Café and Restaurant Discounts

 Ashmolean Members' Magazine posted to you twice a year

 

* Exhibition tickets for children under 12 are free, and tickets for children aged 12–17 are half price. However, each Member (and each Member 'guest', if you hold an ‘and Guest’ Membership) may book up to two FREE tickets for children aged 12–17.

 

ONLINE MEMBER ACCOUNT FAQs

 Your optional online Member Account is designed to enhance your Membership experience.

Your digital Membership card can be used to verify your Membership at the Museum. Your physical card is still entirely valid and is not replaced by the optional digital card.

You can also use your Member Account to book tickets, view your bookings, and more, all from one place.

ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT OR LOG IN

 

Need some help? Not sure about renewing? Find answers to some commonly asked questions below.

 

Have you just joined as a Member?

If you are a newly-signed up Member, we will be in touch once your online Membership Account is ready to be accessed for the first time.

 

Are you logging in to your Membership account for the first time?

Click on the 'Log in' button below and click on the 'Forgot password' button, and enter the email address associated with your membership. 

We will send a password reset email to your email address. When this arrives, please click on the 'Reset my password' button to creat a new password.

Passwords must be more than 8 characters long, contain an upper-case character, a lower-case character, and have a number in a position other than the end.

 

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Having trouble logging in?

If you have any difficulties logging in, or are not sure which email address you have used in association with your Membership, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

The username on your Membership account will be the email address you provided us with when registering for your Membership.

If you can't remember which email address you used, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

To update the email address on your account, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

If you have forgotten your password, please use the 'Forgot password' button on the Membership account logon screen. This will send a password reset email to your email address which you can then use to reset your password.

 

Password reset tokens are valid for 10 minutes. If the password reset token is saying it is invalid, please repeat the steps under 'what should I do if I’ve forgotten my password?' again.

 

You can update your title, address, phone number and newsletter preferences with us. To update any other information, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

To download the digital Membership card, click on the ' to Apple Wallet' button while using your Membership account on your phone. The Apple Wallet Membership can also be used with Google Wallet.

You can also access your digital Membership card on your mobile device and use it as proof of membership whilst at the Museum.

 

Your Membership will be automatically renewed, and we will always write to you before the next Direct Debit collection is due.

 

Yes. You can renew your Membership as normal in person at the Museum or over the phone, as before. If you already have a direct debit instruction in place, your renewal will be automatically processed each year and a new card posted to you.

 

If you have an active membership but cannot access the Membership account, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

To find the tickets you have booked, please click on the View Tickets button in your Membership account.

 

If you have a membership that was not renewed in the past 365 days, please purchase a new membership:

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Currently each Membership can only have one online account, even Joint Memberships.

The Membership account is linked to the first/primary Member. We are working to introduce Membership accounts for secondary Members and hope to be able to announce this soon.

 

For any technical issues or problems, please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

HISTORY HIT FAQs

  

Ashmolean Members will be sent exclusive links, by email, to view films as they are released on the History Hit platform.

The first film will be released on 15 July 2025, and five further films will be released during summer/autumn 2025.

  

If you usually receive emails from the Ashmolean Museum, but didn't receive an email on 15 July with your first video link, then do check your junk/spam mail box, in case our emails are being marked as 'junk'.

If you definitely don't have an email from us, then please get in touch with the Ashmolean Membership team at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

We will ensure that your email address is added to our mailing list, and will send you any History Hit links you have missed.

 

History Hit have gone behind the scenes to discover some of the Ashmolean Museum’s most precious and surprising objects, in depth and up close. Six new documentary films, presented by Dan Snow and Suzannah Lipscomb, alongside Ashmolean curators, will be released between summer 2025 and spring 2026. Ashmolean Members and History Hit subscribers will see them first, at least 3 months before they're released on YouTube to watch for free.

The six documentaries will cast a light on the Ashmolean's varied collection, including protective figurines crafted in the ancient Middle East, strange and exquisite 18th century Memento Mori reminding us of the inevitability of death, Egyptian figures crafted before the first pharaohs, and one of the greatest Anglo Saxon treasures of them all, the Alfred Jewel.

History Hit brings you the stories that shaped the world through an award-winning podcast network and an on-demand online history channel. You can find out more about History Hit, and sign up, on their website: History Hit

 

Ashmolean Members and History Hit subscribers will see the films first, at least 3 months before they're released on YouTube to watch for free.

Subscribe to History Hit, or become an Ashmolean Member, to start watching today.

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STAY CONNECTED

If you have any questions for us, you can contact us by email at membership@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

If you have an email address that you would like us to use, please also send us an email at the same address, so that we can make sure you are the first to know about events and activities.