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Oxford Walking Tours and Local Highlights

Museum of Oxford
Town Hall, St. Aldate's Road, 01865 252761
Open: Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 4pm. Admission £2/1.50.
The Museum of Oxford tells the story of the city and Oxford University including history, archaeology, architecture, and environment. The museum hosts a range of workshops and other activites for children during the summer.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum
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Parks Road, 01865 272950. Admission Free
These Museums overall mission is to assemble, preserve, and exhibit the University's natural history collections and to promote research, teaching, and public education in the natural sciences based on the Museum's collections.

Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street, 01865 722733
Open: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm. Free admission. Closed: Mondays
Founded in 1965, the Modern Art Oxford is the South East's leading centre for modern and contemporary art. Cafe and Museum Shop.

Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street (next to Sheldonian), 01865 277280
Open: Tues - Fri 12pm - 5pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm. Free Admission.
The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building (built in 1683), originally the old Ashmolean.

Botanic Garden
High Street, by Magdalen Bridge, 01865 286690
Open: 9am - 4:30pm. £3.00 / children free
A beautiful riverside setting houses outdoor and glasshouse collections of more than 7,000 plants from the familiar to the exotic.

Oxford University Press Archive
Great Clarendon Street, Jericho, 01865 353527
Open: 30 minute tours by appointment only between 10am - 4pm. Call for an appointment.
This small museum preserves and displays historic books, documents and printing equipment of the Oxford University Press, an international publishing house which is also a department of the University of Oxford.

Oxford University Bodleian Library
Broad Street, 01865 277224
Free admission to these areas at the following times: Old Schools Quadrangle and Bodleian Library Gift Shop: 09:00 - 17:15 Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 16.45 Saturday, 11:00 - 17:00 Sunday; Exhibition Room: 09:00 - 17:00 Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 16.30 Saturday, 11:00 - 17:00 Sunday
The Bodleian was opened in 1602 by Thomas Bodley with a colection of 2,000 books. Today, there are more than 9 million items on 176 kilometres of shelving. Please note that children under 11 are not admitted. Tours given daily Monday through Saturday.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
St Giles Street, 01865 278002
Open: Tues - Sunday 10am - 6pm, Bank Holiday Monday 10am – 6pm
The present Ashmolean was created in 1908 by combining two ancient Oxford institutions: the University Art Collection and the original Ashmolean Museum. As a result of the merging, the present Ashmolean contains both art and artefacts from across a wide range of cultures: early stringed musical instruments, objects from Minoan Crete, Worcester porcelain, Chinese Shang bronzes, Japanese ceramics, European Paintings and many other specialist collections.

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