Ashmolean Museum Presentation

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Rick Mather Architects (Now MICA) University of Oxford / Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology Contractor BAM Construct UK Structural engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners Atelier Ten Services engineer Metaphor Exhibition design Gardiner & Theobald Quantity surveyor Access consultant David Bonnett Associates Acoustics consultant Sandy Brown Associates Lighting Kevin Shaw Lighting Design Project management Mace Architect Client

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Transformation Appointed / Masterplan 1999 Phase I - The New Ashmolean 2009, £61 million

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Phase II - Ashmolean Egypt Galleries 2011, £5 million

2013

Randolph Gallery 2013, £300,000 Re-planned Welcome Space 2014

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2014

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Heritage and Conservation

c.1850 1st Floor Great Gallery

c.1850 West Wing (present shop) Proposed extension to the Taylorian Institute1963

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1842 Contract Drawing

Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos

‘Hell Fire’ Plan commissioned by Evans c.1900

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Strengthened routes through Western Art

Insecure and exposed delivery route for large display objects from street

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Quality of Cockerell axial spaces recognised for clarifying routes, and improving views along axes in adjacent areas

Expand on closely controlled Gallery spaces

Potential coach drop off

2.12 - Policies and Recommendations Ground Floor

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Interpretation: crossing cultures, crossing time ORIENTATION / COMMON GROUND

EAST

3F Modern European

MODERN

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2F West meets East

67 galleries 2009 transformation Laid out geographically and as you move up you move forwards through time.

Adjacencies of research and teaching spaces with the collections

1F Asian Crossroads

Since 2011 Chronological loop Five new galleries of Egypt and Sudan Galleries 2, 16, 19, 39, 54, and 66

LGF Exploring the Past

Current Gallery Interpretation: Ancient to Modern, East meets West

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ANCIENT

GF Ancient World

A welcoming entrance

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“This is not merely a big extension: the new building allows an entirely new reading of its superlative collections. The important innovation is how the architecture stimulates access - the atrium and glass balustraded walkways help reveal the whole museum.”

Stephen Bayley, Observer

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NEW ASHMOLEAN ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM

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Egypt Galleries

“Here, architects and curators have created a special place where “wonderful things” from along the Nile can be seen and experienced as if for the first time.”

Cities Streets Buildings Paths Spaces Parts Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian

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Randolph Gallery

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