Collection: Museum of Oxford

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Wikipedia)

  The Museum of Oxford focuses solely on the history and culture of the City of Oxford, with a focus on the people of the city who are residents rather than the University of Oxford. Such themes included within the displays include football, women’s rights, policing, entertainment, engineering, social history, Jewish and Christian history, archaeology, and British military history. In recent years there has been a shift towards creating more displays featuring Black British history and LGBTIQA+ history. In 2021 following the refurbishments the Museum of Oxford had unveiled a temporary Windrush display celebrating the history of Caribbean people in Oxford since the 1950s. Some of the museum’s most notable items and exhibits include:

  • Oliver Cromwell’s death mask Artefacts from Oxford’s Jewish quarter
  • Oxford’s city crest, gifted by Elizabeth I
  • A chunk of the infamous Cutteslowe Wall
  • Cold War artefacts for measuring nuclear fallout
  • Tickets from The Rolling Stones concert in Oxford
  • A copy of Pink Newspaper, Oxford’s first LGBT newspaper
  • Personal possessions of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Personal possessions of Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • A tin of Frank Coopers Marmalade which was taken on Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole

  This article uses material from the Wikipedia article “Museum of Oxford”, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

  Source: Wikipedia

  Date: 2025

  Licence: CC-BY-SA