First Impressions: The Ashmolean Transformed

Peter Furtado, the previous editor of History Today, comments on Rick Mather’s extension of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, which re-opened on Saturday and reveals a rich collection of old favourites and hidden treasures.New-look Ashmolean is Britain's museum of the decadeThe £61 million rebuilding of Britain’s oldest public museum doubles the exhibition space and increases the number of objects on