Britain’s oldest museum just one highlight of this famous university town
The Ashmolean Museum, Britain's oldest established in 1683, anchors Oxford's cultural attractions alongside the eccentric Pitt Rivers Museum housing global artifacts. The university city also features Blackwell's sprawling bookshop, Oxford Castle and Prison with medieval St George's Tower, the historic Turf Tavern where Bob Hawke set an ale-drinking record, and the Bodleian Libraries holding over thirteen million books.
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Published 18 Jul 2026, 19:00 UTC · Updated 18 Jul 2026, 19:11 UTC
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