Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum

This is a revised and updated souvenir book of the highlights of this vast collection. The treasures of the Ashmolean Museum have been accumulated over three centuries, since its foundation by Elias Ashmole in 1683. This book provides an extraordinary overview of these treasures in one beautiful, highly-illustrated volume, a new edition of the previous "Treasures" book. The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest public museum in Britain, and may even be the oldest in the world. It is a museum that will provide many hours of happy browsing for anyone interested in art or archaeology. The Ashmolean offers collections of international importance, and this books contains a selection of photographs of treasures from these collections, each accompanied by information about each object, written by the Ashmolean's curators.