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University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Until 1 March 2010. The Botanic Garden at the University of Oxford offers visitors a series of events over winter, including an exhibition of fibre-inspired artworks which promotes Fairtrade clothes....
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John Bradford - Pioneer of Landscape Archaeology
2 October 2009 - 31 January 2010. John Bradford (1918-1975) was an archaeologist with the Pitt Rivers Museum, who specialised in the pioneering use of aerial photography to facilitate landscape archae...
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Crossing Cultures Crossing Time: The Ashmolean Museum Re-Opens
From 7 November 2009. Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean museum of art and archaeology re-opens on Saturday 7 November 2009 following a major redevelopment. The new building comprises 39 new galleries, in...
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13 Oct 2009-21 Feb 2010. Steampunk is an artform which came in to prominence in the 1980s and combines an unusual combination of Victorian steam power with a Jules Verne type of fantasy and science fi...
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30 Sept - 29 Nov 2009. Glasgow artist Karla Black (born in 1972) makes process-based sculptural pieces using household materials such as clothing, flour and lipstick, in a style that incorporates aspe...
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13 September - 17 October 2009. The Oxfordshire Museum hosts an exhibition focusing on the ancient art of enamelling. The process of enamelling involves smelting powdered glass onto precious and non-p...
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Carolyn Drake: Photographs of Central Asia
14 May - 15 November 2009. Carolyn Drake is an award-winning photographer whose wide selection of photographs and documentary work from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are on show in the Pitt Rivers Museum....
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25 July-6 Sept 2009. The Oxfordshire Museum is holding an exhibition which looks at life through the eyes of a child during the reign of Britain's longest-serving monarch. The show includes the paraso...
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Buscot Park & The Faringdon Collection
Until 30 September 2009. Buscot Park is home to the Faringdon Collection, which consists of a wealth of antiques and furniture and numbers amongst its paintings Burne-Jones's "The Legend of the Briar...
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Stylish Style - Between Renaissance and Baroque
12 June - 4 October 2009. More than 30 drawings by mid-sixteenth century artists such as Vasari, Salviati, Allori and others will be on display in Christ Church picture gallery. Of the works included...
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University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Concerts, lectures, picnics and educational programmes throughout the year in the heart of Oxford. The gardens have 7,000 different types of plants, making it the most compact collection in the world....
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An Artful Craft: Fine bindings from the Broxbourne and other collections
12 June - 31 October 2009. The Bodleian Library is host to an exhibition of two of of the finest bookbinding collections of the 20th century: the Broxbourne Library collected by Albert Ehrman and the...
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18 April-21 June 2009. A group show in which 14 international artists offer their interpretations of passing and recurring events in urban life, when the traditional means of communications break dow...
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Space season at ScienceOxfordLive.
July-September 2009. The main theme this summer is
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'In My View' by Sarah Howard at o3 Gallery
6 June - 5 July 2009. 'In my View' is the title of the latest exhibition of photography by landscape and travel photographer Sarah Howard. Her photographic expertise and finesse were honed while trave...
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'An Inspector Calls' at The Oxford Playhouse
9 - 13 June 2009. Written in 1946, 'An Inspector Calls' is J.B. Priestly's most well known play. The plot centres around an otherwise happy dinner party at the Birling family home, which is shattered...
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Oxford Fashion Week Exhibition.
29 April - 7 May 2009. Through art and photography, nine artists take a "wholesome, fresh and organic approach" to fashion, addressing environmental and humanitarian issues and highlighting the ethica...
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Othello at The Creation Theatre
17 April - 30 May 2009. Creation Theatre Company was founded in 1996 and is known for producing cutting-edge theatrical events which combine fast-paced action with special effects. This is the first t...
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The English Telescope from Newton to Herschel.
22 March - 19 April 2009. This latest exhibition at the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science charts the story of the telescope in 18th-century England, from Newton to Herschel. Due...
