Showcasing over a hundred spectacular objects from Morocco to China, this is the first major exhibition to explore the supernatural in the art of the Islamic world. The exhibition opens on 20 October. Book online today.
This is an unmissable chance to see objects of stunning beauty and craftmanship many of which have never before been seen in public.
Liu Dan is one of China's leading artists, at the forefront of the generation of painters who have been working in radically new ways in the traditional medium of ink.
Following our 2012 campaign to save Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus for the public, a whole programme of outreach events and activity was programmed that would otherwise not have been possible without Heritage Lottery Fund support.
Join us for a celebration of Diwali and the Big Draw at half-term. Create Rangoli patterns, make a clay Diwali lamp, sketch in the India galleries, and listen to Diwali stories. Free, and all ages welcome.
The tiles of the Islamic world push the ideas of symmetry to their extremes. Professor du Sautoy offers a new way to read the walls of the palaces and mosques of the Islamic world. Booking is essential.
Professor Christopher Brown looks at Rembrandt's earliest paintings. Painted when the artist was just 18, they depict Sight, Touch, Hearing and Smell. The fifth – Taste – remains undiscovered to this day.
Shozo Michikawa talks about his life as a potter and demonstrates his techniques, and Kate Malone, judge on BBC Two's The Great Pottery Throwdown, discusses the pleasures of a life devoted to ceramics.
Visit our shop, online and at the Museum, to find a range of Christmas cards, decorations and gifts inspired by the Ashmolean Museum's collections, as well as books, prints, games, jewellery and more.
Discover more about hosting your wedding at the Ashmolean. Our experienced team will be on hand to answer your questions and to show you the Museum's countless backdrops.
This free display of medals and prizes from the mid-eighteenth century tells us about the ideals of personal and professional improvement through competition during the time in which they were made.
To celebrate the Year of the Monkey in 2016 this special free display showcases papercuts, woodblock prints and lithographs of adventurous and mischievous monkeys from Iran to Japan.
Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the world's first major exhibition devoted to one of the finest landscape artists of the Dutch Golden Age, Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672). Opens 12 October.
This documentary follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass". Showing on Sunday 13 & Thursday 17 November.
