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When Michael Vickers received a call at the Ashmolean Museum from Scotland Yard, he little guessed that it was the start of a long investigation into the provenance of some Etruscan terracottas--a story that has finally reached a happy ending.(OXFORD NEWS)
; ...Caprifico arrived at the Ashmolean. The museum world was rather...the trade and the museum world, at least...The reason why the Ashmolean suddenly came into...the J. Paul Getty Museum was then being created...director of the Cori Museum, and we agreed that...collegiality, too, that ...
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Inter-faith exhibit opens [Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England]
; ...England Britain's oldest public museum has launched an art exhibition...Journey," which has opened at the Ashmolean Museum and runs until April 2, is the...series of initiatives from the museum's new Inter-Faith Exhibition...
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Heads or tails? A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.(CROSS CURRENT)
; ...single European currency. The tiny face on a coin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, belongs to an emperor named Domitianus, who seems...of Oxford: the rest of the hoard is also on display in the Ashmolean. It seems to have been buried in the late 270s, and offers...
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Ashmolean's new director snubs Oxford
; ...director of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has shocked academics...internationally famous museums, there was no property...automatically provided for the Ashmolean director. The Ashmolean is Britain's oldest public museum, having opened in 1683...
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Poacher turns gamekeeper at the Ashmolean
; ...joining Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. The Ashmolean may have just...Ashmole, the Ashmolean also has an incomparable...drawings of any museum, as well as works...appeal for the Ashmolean in the early...terrific that the museum had recruited...
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Letter: Free Ashmolean
; ...Professor Larsen (letter, 7 January) has clearly not visited the Ashmolean Museum, otherwise he would have discovered that, despite what he claims...plans for introducing charges. Professor CHRISTOPHER WHITE Director Ashmolean Museum Oxford
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Ashmolean delights
; At large in the Ashmolean No 1: Girls from the Carrdus School, in Overthorpe, Northants, are wide-eyed as they try to take in the Roman sculpture displayed in the Randolph Gallery of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum Tom Pilston
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At large in the Ashmolean No 5
; At large in the Ashmolean No 5: Ruth Barnes is research cataloguer of the Oxford museum's collection of eastern textiles, which can only be seen by appointment and boasts 3,000 items, including the Robert Shaw Collection...
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At large in the Ashmolean No 6
; At large in the Ashmolean No 6: A researcher studies the inhabitants of the Oxford museum's Cast Gallery Tom Pilston
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Visual Arts: Exposed: the dirty old masters The Ashmolean's exhibition of 17th-century Dutch painting isn't aesthetically the finest work from the period. But it does offer something else. The rude bits.
; ...Mauritshuis in The Hague is one of the world's great small museums. Its contents are pretty well confined to Golden Age Dutch...store, they have gone to Oxford, on temporary loan to the Ashmolean Museum, making up a small show called Scenes of Everyday Life...pleasure you're after, then the Dutch ...
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