Museums in Oxfordshire
Next door neighbour to Pitt Rivers, this huge collection of natural history and sciences includes gemstones, dinosaurs, fossils, zoology, insects, and much, much more. Housed in a superb Victorian Gothic building.
Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX1 3PW
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Heritage Highlight: The Oxford Dodo
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This regional museum stands amid the golden-toned buildings of historic Woodstock, close to the gates of Blenheim Palace. The museum tells the story of the county of Oxfordshire, from prehistory to the present day.
Fletchers House, Park Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, OX20 1SN
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Heritage Highlight: Housed in a historic 16th-century listed building
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This wonderful museum covers prehistory, ethnology, and the arts of all periods and cultures around the world, with over 500,000 items, from boomerangs to musical instruments, and from shrunken heads to textiles and jewellery. This is one of Oxford's most popular museums and for good reason.
South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX1 3PP
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An excellent museum of local heritage partly housed in a historic 18th century merchant's house. The museum covers not just Wantage but the entire Vale of White Horse, with exhibits on archaeology, social history, and local life. There are recreated period shops, a working model of the local railway, and even a Williams Formula One race car.
19 Church Street, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, OX12 8BL
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Heritage Highlight: Saxon carvings
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