List of museums in Oxfordshire explained

This list of museums in Oxfordshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries with permanent collections. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

Museums

Name	Image	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
			Vale of White Horse	Local	Local history, archaeology, contemporary crafts
			Vale of White Horse	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century country house
			Oxford	Multiple	Oxford University museum, art, antiquities, archaeology, artifacts from Ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean and Near East, coins
				Automobile	Aston Martin cars and history
			Cherwell	Local	History of Banbury
		Oxford	Oxford	Music	Oxford University museum, historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the medieval period onwards
			South Oxfordshire	Transport	Veteran and vintage cycles dating from 1818 to 1930, open by appointment
				Historic house	17th century opulent country house, collections of fine and decorative art, birthplace of Winston Churchill
			Cherwell	Local	Local history, culture
			Cherwell	Historic house	Medieval manor house
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, culture, industry
			Vale of White Horse	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century country house with ornate interior, art collection
			Vale of White Horse	Local	History of East Hendred
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, industry, trades and tools, costumes, household items
			West Oxfordshire	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 17th century Jacobean country house
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, archaeology, agriculture, industry
		Oxford	Oxford	Art	Art museum at Christ Church, features Old Master paintings and drawings
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local history
			West Oxfordshire	Farm	Victorian era farm and historic house
			West Oxfordshire	Technology	Preserved beam engine and timber mill
			South Oxfordshire	Railway	Railway engines with outdoor track
			South Oxfordshire	Religious	History of Dorchester Abbey and local history
			South Oxfordshire	Natural history	Area landscape ecology and conservation
			South Oxfordshire	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, Tudor country house and gardens
			Cherwell	Food	Brewery tours and museum
			West Oxfordshire	Historic house	Late 16th-century country house, interior designed by owner William Morris
			South Oxfordshire	Historic house	Elizabethan stately home, grounds include Mapledurham Watermill
		Mapledurham	South Oxfordshire	Mill	18th century watermill, located on the grounds of Mapledurham House
		Oxford	Oxford	Art	Modern art exhibitions, formerly known as The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
		Oxford	Oxford	Science	Oxford University museum in the Old Ashmolean building, collection of historic scientific instruments
		Oxford	Oxford	Local	History of the city of Oxford and the University of Oxford, geology, natural history, archaeology,
			South Oxfordshire	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 20th-century home of Lord Nuffield, founder of the Morris Motor Company, and his wife
			West Oxfordshire	Transport	Bus and road transport, Morris Motors Limited automobiles
		Oxford	Oxford	Prison	Costumed guided tours of the crypt, castle, 18th-century debtors tower and prison D-wing, prison artifacts
			West Oxfordshire	Multiple	Local history, popular culture, contemporary arts and crafts, archaeology, natural history, garden with life-size Megalosaurus and dinosaur footprints
		Oxford	Oxford	Natural history	Oxford University museum, displays of animals, insects, fossils, dinosaurs, rocks and minerals
		Oxford	Oxford	Multiple	Oxford University museum, art, antiquities, archaeology, artifacts from Ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean and Near East, coins
			South Oxfordshire	Railway	Model railways showing typical scenes on the Great Western Railway of the 1920s
		Oxford	Oxford	Anthropology	Oxford University museum, based on the collection of General Augustus Pitt Rivers, archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world, includes musical instruments, weapons, masks, textiles, jewellery, tools, armour, ceramics
			South Oxfordshire	Sport, local	Covers the River Thames, the sport of rowing, and the town of Henley
		Oxford	Oxford	Science	Connections between science, enterprise, and society
		Woodstock	West Oxfordshire	Military	How conflict affected the county, including WWII airfields, home life
			South Oxfordshire	Historic house	Country house and gardens, features family portraits, stained glass, old Master Drawings, European bronzes, contemporary ceramics
		Oxford	Oxford	Literary	Children's literature
			Cherwell	Agriculture	15th century tithe barn with collection of local agricultural and trade vehicles
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local domestic, agricultural, trade and craft tools
			South Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, Tudor wall paintings
			Vale of White Horse	Local	Local history, archaeology, author Thomas Hughes, poet Sir John Betjeman, Uffington White Horse
			Vale of White Horse	Local	History of the Vale of White Horse area around the town of Wantage, art exhibits, 7.9m long model railway, Victorian country kitchen
			South Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, archaeology, Wallingford Castle, medieval life, Victorian street scene
			South Oxfordshire	History	Gardens, country life museum, and Saxon church
			West Oxfordshire	Art	website, an association of artists and art enthusiasts, gallery in Bampton Town Hall
			Vale of White Horse	Automotive	website, part of the RBS Williams F1 Conference Centre, Formula One racing cars and history of WilliamsF1 racing team, open for tours on select dates
			West Oxfordshire	Local	Local history, industry, transport, education and religion

Defunct museums

• Bygones Museum, Claydon^[1]

See also

• • List of museums in Oxford
• Oxfordshire Museums Council
• Virtual Library museums pages, started at Oxford University

External links

• Visit Britain: Oxfordshire Museums
• Visit Southeast England
• Oxfordshire Museums Council: Museums

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Bygones Museum, Claydon. Stationery Steam Engines. 18 March 2015. This little village museum which has now closed contained a vast collection of artefacts representing all aspects of rural life in the twentieth century.. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095310/http://www.stationarysteamengines.co.uk/tiscali/claydon.htm. 2 April 2015.