Museums and Galleries of Oxfordshire 2014
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Museums and Galleries of Oxfordshire 2014 includes 2014 Museum and Galleries D of Oxfordshire Competition OR SH F IR X E O O M L U I S C MC E N U U M O S C Soldiers of Oxfodshire Museum, Woodstock www.oxfordshiremuseums.org The SOFO Museum Woodstock By a winning team Architects Structural Project Services CDM Co-ordinators Engineers Management Engineers OXFORD ARCHITECTS FULL PAGE AD museums booklet ad oct10.indd 1 29/10/10 16:04:05 Museums and Galleries of Oxfordshire 2012 Welcome to the 2012 edition of Museums or £50, there is an additional £75 Blackwell andMuseums Galleries of Oxfordshire and Galleries. You will find oftoken Oxfordshire for the most questions answered2014 detailsWelcome of to 39 the Museums 2014 edition from of everyMuseums corner and £75correctly. or £50. There is an additional £75 token for ofGalleries Oxfordshire of Oxfordshire, who are your waiting starting to welcomepoint the most questions answered correctly. 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We hope in return YearThis year and our can competition be found inremembers the centre the of First advertiser’syou will make services use in of their services. World War, and you will find photographs and the guide. We thank Oxfordshire’s famous return. questions throughout the Guide. Complete the bookseller, Blackwell, for providing the The front cover shows Steam railmotor 93 entry form in the centre pages, and send it to prizes. If you can answer 5 questions which was built in March 1908. It spent that me by Saturday 29th November 2014. If you can Simon Townsend correctlyanswer 5 questions you will correctly,be entered you into will thebe entered draw Chairman,year working Oxfordshire suburban services in west andinto themay draw win and tokens may towin the tokens value to theof £75 value of MuseumsLondon, duringCouncil. which it carried spectators to the first London Olympic Games in 1908. It can be viewed at Didcot Railway Centre. Oxford 2, 5, 10, 18, 19, 20 For more information about Museums in Oxfordshire and the wider region visit: 21,www.oxfordshiremuseums.org 23, 24, 28 www.thamesvalleymuseums.org Banbury 4 Swalcliffe 31 Bloxham 6 Hook Norton 15, 16 Chipping Norton 9 Churchill 11 Charlbury 8 Woodstock 26 Combe 12 30 Burford 34 Long Hanborough 22 Witney 39 OXFORD Waterperry 38 Bampton 3 Filkins 32 Thame 33 Standlake 25 Kelmscott 17 Abingdon 1 Dorchester 14 Long Wittenham 20, 27 Uffington 35 Wallingford 37 Didcot 13 Wantage 36 East Hendred 7 Henley-on-Thames 29 This guide is supported by: This Guide is supported by: PublishedEdited by Peterby Oxfordshire J P Barwell Museums on behalf Council. of Oxfordshire Designed Museums by Touchmedia Council, • Tel:Design; 01242 Nick 519914 Clarke PrintedPrinted by HusselworksColour Cubed Ltd . Tel • Tel: 0121-550 0121 550 9995 9995. EveryEvery effort has has been been made made to to ensure ensure that that the the information information supplied supplied by by each each museum museum was was correct correct at atthe the time time of of publication. publication. 72066 OMC BOOKLET 2012.indd 4 22/12/11 09:39:13 1 | Abingdon County Hall Museum Market Place, Abingdon, OX14 3HG Tel: 01235 523703 www. abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon- county-hall-museum Open: Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm and Bank Holiday Mondays Closed: 24 December - 2 January inclusive Admission: Free to all galleries, small charge for access to the rooftop viewing area (weather permitting) permanent gallery on the history of the town, Carried in the local newspaper during c 1915, the caption read: It was a great triumph for this donkey at Abingdon. The motor refused to budge, so Disabled access: Lift to the café ‘Buns in the the moke was called in to help. The Golden Cross public house (now 3 Stert Street) was run by George Young. The sign reads: George Ernest stunningYoung-Licensed to stock rooftop beer, wines, spirits views, & tobacco. To bemuseum consumed on the premises café. The two‘Buns small signs inread: Cycles stored. The hanging sign next door reads: Abbey Mews –Horses & Carriages for Hire. The car was manufactured by Alldays & Onions during 1905 and sold for £190 10s. It Basement’ and the working engines, but 30 had an 8HP engine and was registered in Oxfordshire. During the Great War there were lots of parades held to support the troops and the war effort; thethis photo Basement’ is typical of many other suchand pictures a at programmethat time. of changing stairs to main gallery and 90 stairs to the attic exhibitions all in a beautifully restored Grade 1 level. listed building “the finest Town Hall in England”. Public transport: Stagecoach route 31/34 Special exhibitions for 2014 from Oxford & Wantage, Oxford Bus X3 from Diamond in Action: Science stories from the Oxford railway station, 35 from Radley Synchrotron until 27 April railway station and X2 from Didcot Parkway MG since 1924: 90 years of MG cars Station 18 March – 20 July Abingdon 1914 – 1918 from 5 August Abingdon-on-Thames is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Oxfordshire, with an unbroken line of inhabitants since 700BC. Come When was this taken? and find out who used to live here. There is a ? 2 | The Ashmolean Museum Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH fragile objects out of storage – some for the www.ashmolean.org very first time. +44 (0)1865 278 000 Open: Tues - Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays 10.00am - 5.00pm Closed: Mondays, 24, 25 & 26 December Admission: Free Oxford’s Ashmolean is the country’s oldest public museum and quite possibly the oldest museum in the world. Its collections span 5000 years, from Prehistoric Europe, Classical Greece and Rome, to the Renaissance, right up to the present day. Amongst the Museum’s treasures are the world’s finest group of drawings by Raphael; the famous Arundel marbles; the Pissarro family archive; and the foremost collection of modern Chinese art in the west. The Museum is home to the greatest collection of Predynastic Egyptian material outside Cairo, and iconic pieces such as the Shrine of Taharqa and the Princess’s Fresco. The new galleries Which First World War hero did redisplay the collections with state-of-the-art these ornate doors belong to? lighting and showcases, bringing the most ? 3 | Aston Martin Museum Drayton St Leonard, OX10 7BG Tel: 01865 400414 www.amht.org.uk E-mail: [email protected] or archive@ amht.org.uk Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 16.30 Admission: £5.00 Adult, £2.00 Children, £3.00 concessions. Members of AMHT & AMOC are Free. Admission can be Gift Aided. Visitor facilities: Off street, dedicated parking area, variety of gifts for sale (including A3 – the oldest Aston in existence), Disabled access: Ground floor only memorabilia, photographs, trophies and a Public transport: No public transport into the comprehensive archive. village. Closest bus service is Berinsfield. The Aston Martin Heritage Trust houses a When did Robert Bamford & Lionel spectacular collection of Aston Martin cars ? Martin start building cars? 4 | Bampton Community Archive The Old Grammar School, Church View Bampton. OX18 2HA Tel: 01993 851041 or 01993 850947 www.bamptonarchive.co.uk Email: [email protected] Open: Apr-Oct Monday to Saturday 10.30 - 12.30, 2.30 - 4.30. Sunday 2.30 - 4.30 Nov-Mar Monday to Saturday 10.30 - 12.30, 2.00 - 4.00. Sunday 2.00 - 4.00 Admission free Visitors facilities: 3 exhibitions a year, touch screen database, toilets, sale of books, pamphlets, cards and DVDs as well as Downton Abbey memorabilia. The Grammar School was used in the filming of Downton Abbey. Disabled access: Ground floor access to exhibitions and toilets. Public Transport: Hourly Monday-Saturday buses from Oxford (route 18) and Witney & Carterton (route 19) Community Archive with over 2000 photographs and DVDs all concerning Bampton’s architecture, social history and unique folklore with particular ‘What is represented here and where is it to be found? emphasis on Morris dancing. ? 5 | Banbury Museum Spiceball Park Road, Banbury ensure that there is always something new Oxon OX16 2PQ to see and do. Tooley’s Boatyard is an historic Tel: 01295 753752 working boatyard and Scheduled Ancient www. [email protected] Monument which adjoins the Museum. The E-mail: [email protected] boatyard includes a dry dock, a forge and Open: Open Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm machine shop, and offers boat trips, boat repair Closed Sundays services, chandlery and gifts. Admission: Free. There is a charge for a tour of PLEASE NOTE, the Boatyard can only be visited Tooley’s Boatyard (see below) as part of a guided tour, telephone 01295 Visitor facilities: Gift shop, visitor 272917 for opening times and prices. Further information, licensed café, local parking, good information on all our activities and services are bus and rail links, family friendly facilities, available on our website.