Ashmolean Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entryEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No parking at the museum itself. Nine Blue Badge bays lie within easy reach (outside the museum, opposite near the Randolph Hotel, on St Giles and St John Street), first come first served, plus pay and display bays on Beaumont Street and St Giles.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683 and one of the oldest public museums in Britain. Its galleries cover a huge span of time, from Egyptian mummies and ancient sculpture to Anglo-Saxon treasures, Minoan objects and modern art, spread over several floors around a central atrium. For families the welcome desk offers trails and explorer packs, and the museum publishes a family guide to help children find objects that suit them. The permanent collections are free to walk around, so a visit can be short or stretch into a long afternoon, and there is a cafe for a break. Lifts serve all floors and there are accessible toilets and baby changing, which helps with pushchairs. Temporary exhibitions are ticketed and can need booking, so check what is on before you travel.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Camera for them
- Pushchair buggy board
- Plasters
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
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