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Our ambitious strategy for an inclusive museum

Vision24

Situated in the heart of Oxford, our beautiful home is the oldest public museum building in the world.

We are on a transformational journey to preserve our building’s heritage and safeguard its future.

Our Vision24 project is all about making your Museum fully accessible and inclusive, so everyone can enjoy it for generations to come.

What's On

Relaxed Opening
Saturday 25 October, 10.45-11.45am

Relaxed Opening

A relaxed, morning opening to explore the Museum collections in a quiet environment. Designed to welcome neurodivergent and SEND visitors and those with sensory processing differences.
All ages welcome
Relaxed Opening
Saturday 22 November, 10.45-11.45am

Relaxed Opening

A relaxed, morning opening to explore the Museum collections in a quiet environment. Designed to welcome neurodivergent and SEND visitors and those with sensory processing differences.
All ages welcome
Relaxed Opening
Saturday 24 January, 10.45-11.45am

Relaxed Opening

A relaxed, morning opening to explore the Museum collections in a quiet environment. Designed to welcome neurodivergent and SEND visitors and those with sensory processing differences.
All ages welcome

Displays

Display: A Healthy Future for All?

Display: A Healthy Future for All?

To save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists took innovative approaches to produce rigorously tested, clinical-grade vaccines and drugs at speed.

But how can these new techniques deliver wider healthcare benefits for all of us?

A Healthy Future for All? empowers you to discover the science for yourself, and explore some of the big questions around the future of healthcare.

Display: Making Waves

Display: Making Waves

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) had a simple vision: to connect the world through wireless technology.

Much of the technology we use today — mobile phones, wifi, GPS, and Bluetooth — can trace its origins back to Marconi’s ideas and devices.

Explore how Marconi’s hands-on science experiments revolutionised how the world stays connected.

Display: Lyra's Worlds

Display: Lyra's Worlds

In the Museum that inspired Lyra's alethiometer ...

Just like Lyra with her alethiometer, we search for answers to life's questions in our moving universe. Journey to our Basement and step into the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Discover iconic costumes and devices from the BBC series, explore intriguing dials that inspired Philip Pullman to create Lyra's alethiometer, and send your questions out to the cosmos.

Discovery starts here

Stories our collections can tell

Blog: Making your mark: the Comtesse de Lespinasse’s Astrolabe

Blog: Making your mark: the Comtesse de Lespinasse’s Astrolabe

From powerful Sultans to a French countess, Dr Sumner Braund tracks down the owners of a rare Mesopotamian astrolabe, exploring the marks they left — and the price they paid.

Join our experts as they put a selection of our working scientific instruments through their paces. It's rare we have a chance to handle these objects, so we hope you enjoy seeing them come to life as much as we did.

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