Ashmolean Museum

/ (æʃˈməʊlɪən, ˌæʃməˈlɪən) /

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a museum, attached to Oxford University and founded in 1683, noted for its paintings and archaeological collections

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Word Origin for Ashmolean Museum

C19: named after Elias Ashmole (1617–92), English antiquary who donated the first collection

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How to use Ashmolean Museum in a sentence

He also warns that the entire Uffizi museum should be fortified with anti-seismic measures.
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The Ashmolean museum, at Oxford, England, founded for the purpose of receiving the antiquary's "twelve cartloads of rarities."
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Bluebeard, you know, had a whole museum of them—as that imprudent little last wife of his found out to her cost.
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If, however, I was agreeably surprised by my visit to the theatre, I experienced quite a contrary feeling on going to the Museum.
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