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🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art

🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
🕯️ ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November…’

Guy Fawkes is said to have been carrying this iron lantern when he was arrested in the cellars underneath the Houses of Parliament on the night of 4–5 November 1605.

See it on display in the Ashmolean Story gallery: www.ashmolean.org/guy-fawkes-l...
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🦇 Happy Halloween! 🦇

This brilliantly spooky take on our student animation project comes from t0bbz (instagram.com/_t0bbz_) and was inspired by a tiny bat-shaped ojime.

🦇 Ojime bead in the form of a bat, Japan, late 19th century. 2.3cm. EA1956.3749
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM