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Reviewed 15 January 2017 via mobile

Unfortunately the upper part of the museum was closed due to staff shortages. The ground floor and basement areas were very interesting though. Einsteinium chalkboard was interesting to see in the basement.

Date of experience: January 2017
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Reviewed 5 January 2017 via mobile

Nice Middle Ages Museum. Filled with local area stuff. Not as interesting as the Pitt River or Natural History Museums, but another stop in Oxford if you have the time.

Date of experience: January 2017
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Reviewed 31 December 2016

A great little museum, housed in splendid old building in the heart of Oxford. Free admission, but obviously they are grateful for donations.

We came for the exhibition 'Back from the Dead - Demystifying Antibiotics.' On the way to the basement where the exhibition was housed, we passed a host of amazing scientific instruments which we will definitely revisit when we have more time.

The antibiotics exhibition was fascinating, showing the immense amount of time and hard work that had gone into developing medicines that we now use and abuse as if they were Smarties.

Especially interesting was a well-explained section on the discovery of the molecular structure of penicillin using X-ray crystallography by the Nobel prize-winning Dorothy Hodgkin, who had been the chancellor of my old university 40 years ago.

Go while this exhibition is still on.

Date of experience: December 2016
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Reviewed 30 December 2016 via mobile

Have lived in oxford for many years and never been in this museum. It was very interesting. Especially if your into science (medicines) and machine like clocks. The stairs are hard going and creak. We spend around 30 mins looking at the old history.

Date of experience: December 2016
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Reviewed 12 December 2016 via mobile

This museum has also free admission. It is a small museum but definitely a worth to visit. There are fascinating displays here for example the blackboard with notes by Einstein in his lecture in Oxford university in 1931. The displays also include some interesting early equipment for anaesthesia. In the ground floor there is an expo about Dorothy Hodking - only British woman Nobel Prize winner - and her remarkable work for producing penicillin and starting the use of it during the Second World War. This expo is fascinating and clearly demonstrates the value of her work for the whole modern medicine.

Date of experience: December 2016
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