The city is home to many museums, galleries, and collections, some considered the best in the UK.<\/p>\n
Ashmolean Museum The University Museum of Natural History<\/strong> Oxford Castle Museum<\/strong> Pitt Rivers Museum<\/strong> The Museum of the History of Science<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>The world’s first university museum and the oldest museum in the UK, dated to the 17e<\/sup> century. In the museum there are significant collections of art, anthropological and archaeological treasures. The museum art collection includes works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, and Picasso, classical sculptures, Far East art, Greek and Roman pottery, and a valuable collection of jewelry.
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\nHome to the University’s zoological, entomological, and geological collections. Its main exhibits include a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, and the complete remains of a Dodo. Other exhibits include geological, mineralogical, and zoological sections.
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\nA place of incarceration since the 11e<\/sup> century and today a museum, presenting past day to day life and events in the castle. Explore the Saxon St. George’s Tower, the 900 years old crypt and the 18e<\/sup> century Debtors’ Tower.<\/p>\n
\nHome to one of the world\u2019s finest collections of anthropology and archaeology, with more than 500,000 items from every continent and throughout human history.
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\nHome to 15,000 artifacts of early scientific instruments associated with figures such as George III, Einstein, and Lawrence of Arabia.<\/p>\n\n