The new Museum is open. You can still check out our ‘Museum at home’ online and offline events and add to Oxford City Stories. In person events are also advertised on Art Tickets, our online ticket booking service.
See our featured events below or click the button to see the rest of our events, including current temporary exhibitions.
The new Museum is open. You can still check out our ‘Museum at home’ online and offline events and adding to Oxford City Stories. In person events are also advertised here.
Choose from talks, exhibitions, family activities to try at home, and sharing your own City Story!
See our featured events below or you can go straight to our events calendar to search through all of our events or view them by day or month.
Highlights
Temporary exhibitions
Our temporary exhibitions are curated and created together with community groups, artists, and researchers. You can see past exhibitions here, and current ones below.
Are we so different? Photo portraits of 19th and 21st century people of Oxford
7 January – 1 April 2023
This temporary exhibition at the Museum of Oxford brings together portraits of Oxford citizens, taken about a century apart.
Henry Underhill, a grocer with a shop on the High Street in the late 19th/early 20th century, took striking photographic portraits of his friends and family in their moments of leisure. Some 100 years later, Kazem Hakimi, owner of the well-loved chip shop on Iffley Road, takes similarly candid photos of his customers, quickly capturing them as they’re waiting for their order.
The photos are exhibited side by side. The selection was made by Mr Hakimi and the Museum staff, and is mostly based on perceived similarities, for example in composition, facial expression, or fashion accessories.
We invite visitors to try and spot the similarities, while at the same time noticing differences between lives past and present, and perhaps asking: what will a similar exhibition look like a hundred years from now?
Dates and opening hours
7 January to 1 April 2023, Museum of Oxford, Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1BX. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm. Admission by voluntary donation.
The exhibition will also be on display at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road from 14 April to 6 May 2023. Check the Pegasus Theatre’s website for venue details.
East Oxford Jukebox
Have fun with the jukebox where each postcard tells you a different story about the Cowley Road, its past and present. Plus a video highlighting stories of immigration to Florence Park. Subject to availability – the jukebox is located in Museum Makers, our workshop and events space, and therefore access to this display may be restricted during events.
Digital exhibitions
Our digital exhibitions feature fantastic local stories. Go to our Digital Exhibitions website, or click on the images below to view our featured exhibitions.
