History, however when the museum of Natural History closed temporarily this year, the collection got to (temporarily) reside in its original home The Museum of The History of Science ( Originally the Ashmolean). The collection is really quite exquisite and features one of Darwin’s specimens.
Upstairs is an exhibit on mathematical Instruments. It features many important mathematical objects including An equatorium which is a complicated instrument used for calculating positions of objects in space (moon, sun...). The exhibit also includes a Sextant (surveying tool) originally owned by famous architect Isambard Brunel a great british architect who built many big buildings and bridges.
The list of amazing artifacts goes on and on, so if your in oxford its worth a visit. However If you're not in Oxford anytime soon the museum’s website offers a great way to learn about the objects almost as if you were at the museum. The website also dives deeper into the importance of the objects and also showcases prior exhibits that you can not see at the museum. The museum is also good at conservation and the website records very clearly the conservation methods which are used to clean and repair old artifacts, something you can’t really learn about at the museum. Oxford has been an extremely important place for modern science and a great way to understand how big an influence the university has on science is to visit the museum or there website at http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk.
The Old Ashmolean photo-Public Domain