Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean is a University Museum and a Department of the University, which owns the collections and employs the museum staff. The Museum has very close links with the faculties, and the colleges, and museum staff undertake a great deal of University teaching and research. The Museum's Collections are also an important teaching and research resource for scholars and students from other institutions both in this country and abroad.

Ashmolean Museum

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Title	Description	People	Date
Conference Programme	Conference Programme for the conference.	Conference Programme	17 January, 2020
Art History and Museum as Medium	Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium.	Cai Guo-Qiang	13 January, 2020
In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii	Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium.	Jerome Neutres	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco	Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Saul Nelson	13 January, 2020
Yi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns	Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Paul Bevan	13 January, 2020
Two Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan	Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium.	Lena Fritsch	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle	David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium.	David Taylor	13 January, 2020
Context and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work	David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium.	David Eliott	13 January, 2020
Welcome and Introduction	Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium.	Shelagh Vainker	13 January, 2020
Felas Octavi	New research reveals that this sling bullet is much ruder than previously thought. Prof. Alison Cooley discusses this with Dr Jane Masséglia and Dr Hannah Cornwell in the Ashmolean's updated Reading and Writing Gallery.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell	11 April, 2017
Lion Statue	On whether there were ever lions in Egypt. Today, there are no lions roaming wild in north Africa, but evidence from ancient Egypt suggests that lions once did.	David Whyte Macdonald	23 January, 2017
Henry VIII Renaissance Medal	On Henry VIII and the Founding of the Church of England Minted at London in 1545, this medal shows a bust of Henry VIII, with inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek on the reverse.	Diarmaid MacCulloch	23 January, 2017
Meissen porcelain chocolate cup and tea bowl	On arranged marriages among royalty.	Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly	23 January, 2017
Arab robe worn by T. E. Lawrence	On Lawrence of Arabia and wearing Arab robes. T. E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia was infamous for his scruffy appearance when in the British Khaki uniform, and wore it as little as possible.	Eugene Rogan	23 January, 2017
Silver-gilt carriage clock	This travelling calendar carriage clock dates to 1747–1823. Why would such a clock need to have both lunar and sun time represented on it? With Professor Chris Lintott Astrophysics, University of Oxford.	Chris Lintott	23 January, 2017
Ennui by Walter Richard Sickert	On Viginia Woolf's interpretation of Walter Sickert's painting of Ennui.	Dame Hermione Lee	23 January, 2017
Mummified Child	On growing up and dying in ancient and modern populations.	Sarah Harper	23 January, 2017
Carved Stone Ball	We still do not know why these stone balls were created. They date to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, between 3200 and 1500 BC.	Marcus du Sautoy	23 January, 2017
Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus by Édouard Manet	Are Eastern Art and Western Art basically the same, and what is painting for? On Édouard Manet, Cézanne and their similarity to Chinese paintings. With Professor Craig Clunas Art History, University of Oxford.	Craig Clunas	23 January, 2017
Tombstone of a Muslim girl	On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford.	Julia Bray	23 January, 2017
Mobile in Museums	Theodore Koterwas, Mobile Development Team Lead, IT Services, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference	Theodore Koterwas	31 October, 2016
Celebrating Diversity: An LGBTQ+ Tour of Oxford University’s Museums and Collections	Beth Asbury, Assistant to the Director and Administration Team, Pitt Rivers Museum, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Beth Asbury	31 October, 2016
Quantifying and Mitigating Human Generated Vibration in Museum Exhibits	Daniel Bone, Deputy Head of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Daniel Bone	31 October, 2016
Interacting with Artefacts, Oxfordshire Collections Project	Stephen Barker, Oxfordshire County Council Museums Service, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Stephen Barker	31 October, 2016
A year in the Zoology Collection	Mark Carnall, Collections Manager (Life Collections), Museum of Natural History gives a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Mark Carnall	21 October, 2016
Memories under the microscope: collaborations between Oxford University Partnership Museums and University of Oxford research departments	Helen Fountain, Reminiscence Officer, Oxford University Museums and Kate Hamblin, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Institute for Population Ageing give a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Kate Hamblin, Helen Fountain	21 October, 2016
VERVE: Connecting the public with displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum	Beth McDougall and Madeleine Ding, VERVE Team, Pitt Rivers Museum give a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Beth McDougall, Madeleine Ding	21 October, 2016
Joint Museums Youth Forum Project	Sarah Lloyd and Carly Smith-Huggins, Education Officers, Museum of Natural History give a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Sarah Lloyd, Carly Smith-Huggins	21 October, 2016
Cabinet: Integrating Text and Object in Oxford Teaching	Giovanna Vitelli, Director, University Engagement Programme, Ashmolean Museum gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Giovanna Vitelli	21 October, 2016
Why community groups work with museums	Nicola Bird, Community Engagement Officer, Oxford University Museums gives a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Nicola Bird	21 October, 2016
Discussing Penicillin	Marie-Louise Kerr, Penicillin Exhibition Curator, Museum of the History of Science gives a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Marie-Louise Kerr	21 October, 2016
Transportation Transformation	Andrew Hughes, Move Project Team Leader, Pitt Rivers Museum, gives a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Andrew Hughes	21 October, 2016
Dodo Roadshow	Scott Billings, Digital Engagement Officer, Museum of Natural History gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.	Scott Billings	21 October, 2016
The Real Abascantianus	On 30th October 2015, we staged a Roman funeral in the Ashmolean Museum. But who were we burying? Here you can hear the talk that Prof. Alison Cooley gave on the night, telling the story of the man behind the urn.	Alison Cooley	26 April, 2016
Rider Reliefs	Prof. Alison Cooley talks with Dr Jane Masséglia about two Roman tombstones showing men on horseback, recently installed by AshLI in the Ashmolean Museum's Rome Gallery.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia	26 April, 2016
Early Christian Gold Glass	Prof. Alison Cooley and Dr Jane Masséglia from the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, talking about the symbols and celebrations of early Christians in the Roman Empire.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia	26 April, 2016
Death at the Museum	Highlights of the Ashmolean Museum's Halloween DEADFriday event.	University of Oxford	16 December, 2015
'Accidental Death in Tudor England'	Professor Steven Gunn and Dr Tomasz Gromelski gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Dr Steven Gunn and Dr Tomasz Gromelski	24 November, 2015
Oscar Wilde's Love Beyond the Grave	Michèle Mendelssohn gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Michèle Mendelssohn	24 November, 2015
'Death Masks: Facing the Dead'	Emily Knight gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Emily Knight	24 November, 2015
‘Ophelia, Death and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’	Hannah Lyons gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Hannah Lyons	24 November, 2015
'Crowley's Tarot and Egyptian Art'	John Dunning gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	John Dunning	24 November, 2015
‘Who owns your face when you are DEAD?’	Jane Caplan gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Jane Caplan	24 November, 2015
'The Roman Art of Dying'	Paul Roberts gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Paul Roberts	24 November, 2015
'Victorian Children's Literature and Death'	Franziska Kohlt gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Franziska Kohlt	24 November, 2015
'A View from My Corpse'	Raymond Tallis gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event	Raymond Tallis	24 November, 2015
Stone tools	William Mills shows the range of stone tools early humans created for different purposes	William Mills	13 October, 2015
Environments of the past	William Mills shows how all the technologies interact and how early humans used their environment and their ingenuity in their everyday liv	William Mills	13 October, 2015
Art	The Living in the Stone Age team create a piece of artwork on deerskin using natural pigments made from charcoal, chalk and ochre.	Iain Morley, William Mills, Cory Cuthbertson, Kint Janulis, Manse Ahmad	13 October, 2015
Music	Iain Morley talks about evidence of music making in the Stone Age and makes a bull roarer.	Iain Morley	13 October, 2015
Fish trapping	Klint Janulis makes a fish trap using willow and flint tools	Klint Janulis	13 October, 2015
Fire starting using flint, Iron pyrites and fungus	Manse Ahmad uses King Alfred Cake and Horse hoof fungus, flint and Iron pyrites to raise a flame.	Manse Ahmad	13 October, 2015
Fire starting using a bow drill	Manse Ahmad demonstrates fire starting using friction and pressure	Manse Ahmad	13 October, 2015
Fire Lighting Ancient and Modern	Manse Ahmad talks about the importance of fire and talks about the how ingenious early humans were in creating fire, something that is so easy for us to do today.	Manse Ahmad	13 October, 2015
Stone Age Technology	Klint Janulis and Iain Morley introduce the series of films	Klint Janulis, Iain Morley	13 October, 2015
Flint Knapping	William Mills demonstrates flint knapping; the process of creating flint tools	William Mills	13 October, 2015
Braiding and Cordage	Using stinging nettles to make strong string	Cory Cuthbertson	13 October, 2015
The building bricks of an empire	The bricks that built the Roman Empire	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia	21 September, 2015
Freedmen and Friends	A funerary inscription reveals questions of social status and friendship in the Roman world.	Alison Cooley, Hannah Cornwell	27 July, 2015
A Bullet with your Name on	Slingshot bullet from the seige of Perusia, 41/40 BC.	Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell	12 May, 2015
A Roman Intelligence Officer	A Roman Intelligence Officer stationed in Britain.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell	12 May, 2015
A Roman Soldier's plaque to Hercules	The Roman soldier who went to Newcastle and punched Hercules.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell	12 May, 2015
Hercules and the Roman teenager	A memorial for a teenage son, with some unusual images of Hercules.	Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell	12 May, 2015
Egypt and the Ashmolean – 5 millennia of collections care part two	Mark Norman, Head of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum, concludes his talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference	Mark Norman	17 September, 2014
Ancient Worlds: Open Data, Mobile Web, Haptics, Digital Touch	Stephen Devine, Digital Communications Officer, and Sam Sportun, Collection Care Manager/Senior Conservator, Manchester Museum give a talk for the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Stephen Devine, Sam Sportun	17 September, 2014
Bringing it all together in the Artifact Lab: Conservation, research, display, interpretation	Molly Gleeson, Rockwell Project Conservator, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Molly Gleeson	17 September, 2014
Reflecting on Egyptian Pigments: the use of Fibre Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) for pigment analysis at the Fitzwilliam Museum	Jennifer Marchant, Antiquities Conservator and Abigail Granville, Pigment Analyst, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, give a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Jennifer Marchant, Abigail Granville	17 September, 2014
On not exhibiting a corpse: the Mummy Chamber, Brooklyn Museum	Lisa Bruno, Head Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Lisa Bruno	17 September, 2014
King Menkaure in Motion: the metamorphosis of a Monolithic royal sculpture from the Old Kingdom	Susanne Gänsicke, Conservator; Matthew Siegal, Chair of Conservation and Collections Management, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gives a talk for the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference	Susanne Gänsicke	17 September, 2014
Problems and possibilities for the Petrie Museum’s pottery display	Susanna Pancaldo, Senior Conservator, UCL Museums and Collections, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Susanna Pancaldo	17 September, 2014
The importance of technical analysis and research for the conservation and display of archaeological garments	Anne Kwaspen, Conservator of the Archaeological Textile Collection, Katoen Natie, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference	Anne Kwaspen	17 September, 2014
Mummy case saved by LEGO: a collaborative approach to conservation of an Ancient Egyptian cartonnage	Sophie Rowe, Conservator; Julie Dawson, Senior Assistant Keeper, Conservation, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Sophie Rowe	17 September, 2014
Evolving Attitudes: past and present treatment of Egyptian Collections of the Oriental Institute	Alison Whyte, Associate Conservator, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Alison Whyte	17 September, 2014
The Stair of Glory: The Meet‐and‐Greet Gallery – a unique dramatic gallery at the Grand Egyptian Museum	Mohamed Gamal Rashed, Curator, Museum Display and Research Director, The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference.	Mohamed Gamal Rashed	17 September, 2014
The APPEAR Collaboration: a comparative study of ancient mummy portraits	Maria Svoboda, Associate Conservator of the Antiquities Department, J. Paul Getty Museum, California gives a talk for the	Maria Svoboda	17 September, 2014
Seeing Mummy Portraits: preparation for display in 2011 and recent collaborative investigation	Jevon Thistlewood, Paintings Conservator, Ashmolean Museum, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections	Jevon Thistlewood	17 September, 2014
Raising the Dead: bringing design concepts to display	Daniel Bone, Deputy Head of Conservation, Ashmolean museum, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference. The co-author is Sue Barker, Preventative Conservator, Ashmolean Museum.	Daniel Bone	17 September, 2014
Vertically Challenging: the investigation and conservation of a deteriorated coffin for vertical display	Bronwen Roberts, Conservator, British Museum, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections. The Co-Author is Nicky Lobaton, Objects Conservator, Ashmolean Museum	Bronwen Roberts	17 September, 2014
The Redevelopment of the Ashmolean’s Egypt and Nubia Galleries – designing and building the new galleries	Stuart Cade, Partner in Charge, Rick Mather Architects, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections	Stuart Cade	17 September, 2014
Egypt and the Ashmolean – 5 millennia of collections care part one	Mark Norman, Head of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference	Mark Norman	17 September, 2014
Introduction to the Egyptian Collections	Liam McNamara, Assistant Keeper for Ancient Egypt and Sudan, Ashmolean Museum, gives the first talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference	Liam McNamara	17 September, 2014
Conclusion - taking iPads and tablets into the classroom	In this film, Adrian and Helen give their personal reflections on the apps and how iPads and tablets can be best integrated into classroom art teaching as well as museum visits.	Helen Ward, Adrian Brooks	23 July, 2014
Brushes 3 - Creating a visual masterpiece on an iPad	Brushes 3 is a dynamic, versatile drawing app with many features that you would expect to find on a sophisticated photo editing package. Adrian explains how it can benefit student work and how to get started with making your own art.	Adrian Brooks	23 July, 2014
123d Catch - creating 3D images with an iPad or tablet	123d Catch is a piece of 3D modelling software that allows you to create high quality, rotating 3D images on an ipad by taking a series of pictures around the object. This short video explains how to get started.	Adrian Brooks, Tim Dobson, Helen Ward	23 July, 2014
Pic Collage - gathering, researching and editing on a tablet	This short film gives an overview of the Pic Collage app. Pic Collage allows the user to collect images, collate and edit them and then export for further work. Helen Ward explains more.	Helen Ward, Adrian Brooks	23 July, 2014
Introduction - iPads as a learning and research tool	In this short introductory video, Helen and Adrian outline the key aims of the series of films and start to explain how iPads and tablets can effectively be used in a museum visit or in a classroom.	Adrian Brooks, Helen Ward	22 July, 2014
The Five Pillars of Islam	Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean discusses The Five Pillars of Islam using objects from the Oxford University Museums.	Dr Francesca Leoni	20 November, 2013
Xu Bing: Documentary	A short documentary about artist Xu Bing, created by the Ashmolean Museum for Art and Archaeology.	Xu Bing	7 May, 2013
Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am	Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.	Xu Bing	22 April, 2013
9. Creativity	Lesson 8. Invention!	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
8. Field Notes	Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
7. With Colour	Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
6. Measured Drawing	Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
5. Making a Livelier Drawing	Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
4. Toned Paper	Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
3. The Edge of the Pencil	Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
2. The Tip of the Pencil	Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing	Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011

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