Ashmolean Museum
About Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the establishment of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1661 by the University of Basel.
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His name is Robert Plott, a founding curator at the Ashmolean Museum. He's also very famous because he found what was the first-ever dinosaur bone, as it were.
from 131: No Such Thing As Walking The Life Jacket, 2016-09-17 at 00:17:15 · read transcript
Other times Ashmolean Museum came up
I guess he compared his own thigh bone to the elephants and went, ah, doesn't look the same at all. I like the idea of that happy coincidence. There happened to be an elephant in town. That's quite cool. It's rocking up. I wrote to the Ashmolean Museum to say, do you still have the bone? They said, we don't keep dinosaur bones here. You should try out other places. I started looking into it more. Turns out they lost it.
No Such Thing As Walking The Life Jacket, 2016-09-16 · listen
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