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ARTS, CULTURE & TOURISM
HISTORY OF SCIENCE MUSEUM
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Tel: 01865 277280
The History of Science Museum, situated on Broad
Street, holds a leading collection of scientific
instruments from the Middle Ages to the 19th
century. the History of Science Museum houses an
unrivalled collection of early scientific instruments in
the world’s oldest surviving purpose-built museum
building, the Old Ashmolean. It operates as both
a department of the University of Oxford and an
active public museum, offering a programme of
family-friendly events, gallery tours, table talks
and much more, along with taught sessions for
schools. For an introduction to the museum and
its collections, come along to one of the regular
tours. Led by award-winning volunteer guides,
they usually take place every Thursday at 2:30pm
and 3:15pm and every Saturday at 12:30pm and
1:15pm. An active and enthralling public museum,
the History of Science Museum offers a diverse
programme of public lectures and much more.
Christ Church, St. Aldates,
Oxford, OX1 1DP
01865 276 150
Christ Church is a venerable gallery stocked with
an important collection of Old Master paintings
and drawings, housed in a purpose-built space of
considerable architectural interest in itself. General
John Guise bequeathed his collection of over 200
paintings and almost 2,000 drawings to his former
college upon his death in 1765. This extraordinary
gift enabled Christ Church to introduce art into
Oxford education without the necessity to travel to
Italy or to gain access to stately homes, which still
held the majority of art collections in the country.
The collection was reinforced by subsequent gifts
by the Hon. William Fox-Strangways including
Filippino Lippi’s ‘The Wounded Centaur’, and by the
family of the poet Walter Savage Landor. A number
of subsequent gifts and bequests of paintings
enabled Christ Church’s art collection to grow. Today
it consists of some 300 exquisite paintings and an
enviable collection of fine drawings.
CHRIST CHURCH
PICTURE GALLERY
