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Driving Tour of England's University Town Museums

Jasper James Paintings by British artists at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum

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England's university towns have some of the country's best museums outside of London. This five-day drive takes you through pastoral landscapes and to nine superb collections—covering everything from art to zoology.

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4 Hotels 6 Restaurants 9 Activities

Destinations: Bath · Norwich · Oxford · Cambridge

Themes: Arts + Culture · Driving · Food + Drink

Inspired by: English University Museums — by Eve Glasberg, Published Apr. 2006

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    Tasburgh House Hotel

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    Eastgate Townhouse

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    Royal Cambridge

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    De Vere Dunston Hall

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    Pasta Galore

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    Fishworks

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    Quod

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    Browns, Oxford

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    Holburne Museum

    Bath | Europe | England | Great Britain | The Bath & Bristol Area

    The museum houses the treasures of Sir William Holburne, a 19th-century Bath collector of fine and decorative art. More
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    Pitt Rivers Museum

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    The Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the world's top ethnographic collections, comprises a dizzying array of objects—vitrines stuffed with shrunken heads... More
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    Ashmolean Museum

    Oxford | Europe | England | Great Britain | The Oxford Area

    The museum contains art and antiquities from four millennia. More
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    Christ Church Picture Gallery

    Oxford | Europe | England | Great Britain | The Oxford Area

    Christ Church Picture Gallery nearby is a jewel box of Old Master paintings and drawings. The paintings are impressive, but it's the drawings—by Mi... More
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    Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

    Oxford | Europe | England | Great Britain | The Oxford Area

    The tight space here brims with 2,000 woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, including a Swiss alpenhorn, one of the world's largest instrume... More
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    Scott Polar Research Institute

    Cambridge | Europe | England | Great Britain | Cambridge & East Anglia

    At the Scott Polar Research Institute, you can pore over exhibits relating to the Arctic and Antarctic, including Sir Ernest Shackleton's expediti... More
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    Museum of Zoology

    Cambridge | Europe | England | Great Britain | Cambridge & East Anglia

    The museum holds a trove of animal skeletons and fossils, to see Charles Darwin's specimens from the Beagle voyage. More
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    Fitzwilliam Museum

    Cambridge | Europe | England | Great Britain | Cambridge & East Anglia

    Make a beeline for the Italian paintings gallery to see the Annunciation by Domenico Veneziano, painted in the 1440's for the altarpiece of a churc... More
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    Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts

    Norwich | Europe | England | Great Britain | Cambridge & East Anglia

    The newly expanded Norman Foster–designed center features a collection that spans centuries and continents: a Francis Bacon painting hangs next to ... More
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