Ashmolean Museum
Museum of art and archaeology behind a two-stone Greek Revival front, with a light-filled modern core.
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This guide to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford stands you on Beaumont Street in front of Charles Cockerell's eighteen-forties facade and asks what it is really made of, from Bath and Portland stone to baked-clay ornament. It follows the architect Rick Mather and the rebuilding that reopened in two thousand nine under a listing rule about what the street was allowed to see. Best heard facing the columns before you go in.
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