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What does Ashmolean mean?

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  1. Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), celebrated English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist, whose cabinet of curiosities became the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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She met my Father at a dinner for the Ashmolean, where I was born and attended various public schools until first matriculation.
When he criticised Michelangelo in a lecture in June 1871 it was seen as an attack on the large collection of that artist's work in the Ashmolean Museum.
He also made a generous gift to the Ashmolean Museum, presenting it in 1853 with forty of his Carracci studies.
The Ruskin remained at the Ashmolean until 1975 when it moved to 74 High Street.
He was carrying a lantern now held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and a search of his person revealed a pocket watch, several slow matches and touchwood.
On 26 November 2011, the Ashmolean opened to the public the new galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia.

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