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Ashmolean Museum
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Ashmolean Museum: see under Ashmole, Elias Ashmolean Museum (ăshmō`lēən), the first such public institution in England.
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Figure 1 takes us to the dictionary room interior of the Old Ashmolean building in Oxford which opened in 1683 about the time that Eau Claire, Wisconsin was founded as trading post in what was then Louis Fourteenth's New France, (incidentally my wife, and I have visited the Ashmolean building a score of times on our travels in the last decade).
So, for example, while Lincoln School of Architecture, the extensions to Keble College Oxford, and a house in Hampstead called The Priory are described and analysed comprehensively, the alterations to the Ashmolean Museum and the various university masterplans get short shrift.
The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom 2005
 
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