Editing Ashmolean Museum (section)

===Broad Street===
The museum opened on 24 May 1683,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html |title=Ashmolean Museum |publisher=[[Pitt Rivers Museum]] |language=en-gb |access-date=22 May 2018 }}</ref> with [[natural history|naturalist]] [[Robert Plot]] as the first keeper. The building on [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] (later known as the [[Museum of the History of Science, Oxford|Old Ashmolean]]) is sometimes attributed to [[Christopher Wren|Sir Christopher Wren]] or Thomas Wood.<ref>{{cite journal|editor=Salter, H. E.|editor2=Lobel, Mary D. |title=Victoria County History |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63866 |journal=A History of the County of Oxford|volume= 3|date= 1954 |pages= 47–49}}</ref> [[Elias Ashmole]] had acquired the collection from the gardeners, travellers, and collectors [[John Tradescant the Elder]] and his son, [[John Tradescant the Younger]]. It included antique coins, books, engravings, geological specimens, and zoological specimens—one of which was the stuffed body of the last [[dodo]] ever seen in Europe; but by 1755 the stuffed dodo was so moth-eaten that it was destroyed, except for its head and one claw.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bryson |first1=Bill |title=A Short History of Nearly Everything |date=2003 |publisher=Broadway Books, Random House, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-7679-0818-X |page=470 |edition=1st |quote=In 1755, some seventy years after the last dodo's death, the director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford decided that the institution's stuffed dodo was becoming unpleasantly musty and ordered it tossed on a bonfire. This was a surprising decision as it was by this time the only dodo in existence, stuffed or otherwise. A passing employee, aghast, tried to rescue the bird but could save only its head and part of one limb.}}</ref>