Ashmolean Museum - Collections

Collections

Highlights of the Ashmolean's collection include:

• The Alfred Jewel
• Drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci
• Watercolours and paintings by Turner
• The Messiah Stradivarius, a violin made by Antonio Stradivari
• Arab ceremonial dress owned by Lawrence of Arabia
• A substantial number of Oxyrhynchus Papyri, including Old and New Testament biblical manuscripts
• Paintings by Paolo Uccello, Piero di Cosimo, John Constable, Claude Lorraine, and Pablo Picasso
• A death mask of Oliver Cromwell
• The collection of Posie rings that supposedly inspired the One Ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• An extensive collection of antiquities from Prehistoric Egypt and the succeeding Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
• The Parian Marble, the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table
• The Metrological Relief, showing Ancient Greek measurements
• The ceremonial cloak of Chief Powhatan
• The lantern that Gunpowder Plot conspiracist Guy Fawkes carried in 1605
• The Minoan collection of Arthur Evans, the biggest outside Crete
• The Narmer Macehead and Scorpion Macehead
• The Kish tablet
• The Abingdon Sword, an Anglo-Saxon sword found at Abingdon south of Oxford