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=== Museums ===
{{See also|Category:Museums of the University of Oxford}}
[[File:Interior of Pitt Rivers Museum 2015.JPG|thumb|Interior of the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]]]]
Oxford maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free to the public. The [[Ashmolean Museum]], founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Support Us |work=The Ashmolean |url=http://www.ashmolean.org/support/corporatesupport/about/ |access-date=10 October 2007 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503032502/http://www.ashmolean.org/support/corporatesupport/about/ |archive-date=3 May 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> It holds significant collections of art and archaeology, including works by [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[J. M. W. Turner|Turner]], and [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], as well as treasures such as the [[Scorpion Macehead]], the [[Parian Chronicle|Parian Marble]] and the [[Alfred Jewel]]. It also contains "[[Messiah Stradivarius|The Messiah]]", a pristine Stradivarius violin, regarded by some as one of the finest examples in existence.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oxford hosts UK's biggest Stradivarius exhibition |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22526768 |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=14 May 2013 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307095917/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22526768 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum of Natural History]] holds the university's zoological, entomological and geological specimens. It is housed in a large neo-Gothic building on [[Parks Road]], in the university's [[Science Area, Oxford|Science Area]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/|title=Oxford University Museum of Natural History Homepage|publisher=[[Oxford University Museum of Natural History]]|access-date=4 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027090448/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/|archive-date=27 October 2007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Map of Museums, Libraries and Places of Interest |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/#qmuseums_libraries_and_places_of_interest |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027080434/http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/#qmuseums_libraries_and_places_of_interest |archive-date=27 October 2007 |access-date=4 November 2007 |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en-AU |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref> Among its collection are the skeletons of a ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' and ''[[Triceratops]]'', and the most complete remains of a [[dodo]] found anywhere in the world. It also hosts the [[Charles Simonyi|Simonyi]] [[Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science|Professorship of the Public Understanding of Science]], currently held by [[Marcus du Sautoy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Oxford Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science |url=https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/the-oxford-simonyi-professor-for-the-public-understanding-of-science/ |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307102756/https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/the-oxford-simonyi-professor-for-the-public-understanding-of-science/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Adjoining the Museum of Natural History is the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]], founded in 1884, which displays the university's archaeological and anthropological collections, currently holding over 500,000 items. It recently built a new research annexe; its staff have been involved with the teaching of anthropology at Oxford since its foundation, when as part of his donation General [[Augustus Pitt Rivers]] stipulated that the university establish a lectureship in anthropology.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Keuren |first1=David K. |title=Museums and Ideology: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Museums, and Social Change in Later Victorian Britain |journal=[[Victorian Studies]] |date=1984 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=171–189 |jstor=3826763 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3826763 |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307100546/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3826763 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Museum of the History of Science, Oxford|Museum of the History of Science]] is housed on Broad Street in the world's oldest-surviving purpose-built museum building.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> It contains 15,000 artefacts, from antiquity to the 20th century, representing almost all aspects of the [[history of science]]. In the Faculty of Music on [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St Aldate's]] is the [[Bate Collection]] of Musical Instruments, a collection mostly of instruments from Western classical music, from the medieval period onwards. [[Christ Church Picture Gallery]] holds a large collection of [[old master]] paintings and drawings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Katz |first1=Brigit |title=Thieves Steal Three Precious Artworks From Oxford Gallery |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-precious-artworks-swiped-oxford-gallery-180974434/ |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date=17 March 2020 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307094948/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-precious-artworks-swiped-oxford-gallery-180974434/ |url-status=live }}</ref>