Basement & Shop

Basement & Shop

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Making Waves

Marconi's Radio Revolution

Guglielmo Marconi, Making Waves

The wireless technology we use today can trace its origins back to Marconi's ideas and devices.

Mobile phones: meet the ancestors!

From saving lives on the Titanic to founding the BBC, explore the stories behind Marconi's Radio Revolution.

Guglielmo Marconi, Making Waves

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Alice in Typhoidland

The Past and Present of Typhoid

Alice in Typhoidland

Glide with us on a murky ride as we travel down the sewer hole into Oxford's underside.

Join Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland) on a tour through the past and present of typhoid control.

Alice in Typhoidland

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Science at War

Periodic Table and Penicillin

Dorothy Hodgkin 3D Penicillin Model

Discover the people behind two Oxford Science stories: Harry Moseley's groundbreaking work on the Periodic Table and Howard Florey's life-saving penicillin team.

Don't miss Nobel Prize-winner Dorothy Hodgkin's 3D penicillin model.

Dorothy Hodgkin 3D Penicillin Model

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Einstein's Blackboard

What Relativity says about the Universe

Einstein's Blackboard

In May 1931, Albert Einstein used this blackboard in an Oxford lecture to discuss what Relativity has to say about the universe.

It's an intriguing snapshot at a key moment in our understanding of the cosmos.

Einstein's Blackboard

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Lyra's Worlds

Beeson Room

Spotlight Story: Lyra's Worlds

Stairs to Basement & Shop

Stairs to Basement & Shop

Spotlight Story: Star Gazers

Entrance Gallery

Entrance Gallery

Spotlight Stories 5-8

Stairs to Top Gallery

Stairs to Top Gallery

Spotlight Story: Reach for the Moon

Top Gallery

Top Gallery

Spotlight Stories 1-4

The Old Ashmolean Building (print)

The 'Old Ashmolean': A Short History

The World's Oldest Surviving Purpose-built Public Museum Building

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Where next?

Lyra's Worlds

Beeson Room

Spotlight Story: Lyra's Worlds

Stairs to Basement & Shop

Stairs to Basement & Shop

Spotlight Story: Star Gazers

Entrance Gallery

Entrance Gallery

Spotlight Stories 5-8

Stairs to Top Gallery

Stairs to Top Gallery

Spotlight Story: Reach for the Moon

Top Gallery

Top Gallery

Spotlight Stories 1-4

The 'Old Ashmolean': A Short History

The 'Old Ashmolean': A Short History

The World's Oldest Surviving Purpose-built Public Museum Building

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Main Menu

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