Book your tickets to see more than 100 rarely seen prints, films, drawings, sculptures & paintings by cultural icon, celebrity and provocateur Andy Warhol.
Booking is strongly recommended. Entry is free for members and under-12s.
Join us after-hours and enjoy live music, pop-up films, silent discos, DJs, and more at these late night events inspired by Warhol's Factory Parties. Entry to the exhibition is included in the ticket price.
Turner Prize Winner Elizabeth Price displays her Contemporary Art Society Award winning work, a specially commissioned 15 minute two-screen video installation. Entry is free.
Winner of the 2012 Turner Prize and the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award, Elizabeth Price gives a special insight into the work and inspiration behind her latest video installation, A RESTORATION.
Celebrate Mother's Day this Sunday at the Ashmolean Dining Room with our special set menu. Book your table to enjoy 2 or 3 courses with a glass of Prosecco included.
Visit our new Exhibition Shop to see a new range of gifts, jewellery, books, bags, prints, games and more, all inspired by Andy Warhol and our new exhibition.
Celebrate National Shakespeare Week with Shakespearean activities and a family trail, and join us at Easter to make rabbit ears and a pom pom Easter Bunny plus rabbity adventures in the galleries.
This free display of paintings, textiles and porcelain takes Chinese immortals and immortality as its theme, with a particular focus on the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Light.
To celebrate our Andy Warhol exhibition, Cass Art are offering you the chance to win a Screen Printing Set, so you can make your own Warhol inspired prints at home, plus tickets, a catalogue, and afternoon tea.
Ashmolean Members get in FREE to all exhibitions and enjoy a range of discounts and behind-the-scenes activities. Join by Direct Debit and get 15 months of membership for the price of 12.
From neo-classical to contemporary, the intimate to the awe-inspiring, the Ashmolean is the perfect event venue to leave you with unique and lasting memories of your celebration.
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers celebrate their 16th Choral Pilgrimage with a programme of music by William Byrd and Arvo Pärt, two composers who sought solace in their sacred music in times of political and religious persecution.
Death on the Nile: Uncovering the afterlife of ancient Egypt
From 23 February until 22 May go beyond the images of mummies, pharaohs and mystery often associated with ancient Egypt, and see how coffin design developed over 4,000 years.
The work of Adam Buck, Regency portrait and miniature painter, was very well known in his own lifetime. Buck's portraits of The Royals, landowners, serving Officers and society hostesses, dressed in white muslin, seated or standing in fashionable interiors, bring the world of Jane Austen vividly to life. The exhibition is open until 4 October.
The winners of our summer photography competition, part of our campaign to secure JMW Turner's iconic painting of The High Street, Oxford, have now been chosen by our judging panel. The competition was open to all ages and abilities and almost 1,200 entries were received.
Come and see the winning and runner-up entries on display in the Ashmolean café.
Book now to discover how the splendour of Venice and its shimmering light influenced artists, resulting in compelling portraits, atmospheric landscapes of exceptional beauty and sensuous figure studies.
In a parallel exhibition, one of the UK's most celebrated contemporary artists, Jenny Saville, has produced new work on paper and canvas in response to the powerful qualities of Venetian drawing.
Discover more about your city this weekend as both historic and new buildings open up their doors letting you can take a peek inside. Join us for tours, coin handling, and a musical performance.
Join the Reverend Richard Coles, broadcaster and amateur collector, for a special event examining the uses and abuses of a Parson's pots; sacred and secular.
From diaries and books, to pens and notebooks, keep yourself organised this year with our beautiful selection of stationery inspired by the collections at the Ashmolean.
Don't miss the brand new RSC play Hecuba open at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 17 September – a visceral vision of war, womanhood and courage.
Maggie Thatcher vs Queen Liz – the Olivier Award-winning comedy comes to Oxford. From 28 September to 3 October. "Outstanding. Witty and confident" – The Evening Standard