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What does Ashmolean mean?

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  1. Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), celebrated English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist, whose cabinet of curiosities became the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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In 2000, the Chinese Picture Gallery, designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects, opened at the entrance of the Ashmolean and is partly integrated into the structure.
He also made a generous gift to the Ashmolean Museum, presenting it in 1853 with forty of his Carracci studies.
She met my Father at a dinner for the Ashmolean, where I was born and attended various public schools until first matriculation.
When he criticised Michelangelo in a lecture in June 1871 it was seen as an attack on the large collection of that artist's work in the Ashmolean Museum.
The interior of the Ashmolean has been extensively modernised in recent years and now includes a restaurant and large gift shop.
The Bodleian and Ashmolean collections are emulated by the harleian.

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