Stone pillars abstract of the Ashmolean

Description

Stone pillars on the exterior of the Ashmolean Museum, the world’s second university museum and Britain’s first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.

Location: The Ashmolean, Oxford

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Photo taken in 2011

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