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The Ashmolean: Britain's oldest museum, founded in 1683
Balliol College: founded in 1263, which has produced many great statesmen and politicians
Blenheim Palace: at Woodstock, 8 miles north of Oxford, home of the Churchill family since the 18th century.
Bodleian Library: dating from 1426 - an architectural masterpiece
Botanic Garden: the oldest in Britain, in a lovely setting by the river
Brasenose College: founded in 1509, with a long and interesting history (find out where the name came from!)
Carfax Tower: wonderful views over the city, and a fascinating clock
Christ Church: the College chapel is also a cathedral - the smallest in Britain
Corpus Christi College: the smallest of the colleges with an unusual sundial and delightful gardens
Exeter College: with a magnificent Gothic chapel designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott
Hertford College: with its impressive 'Bridge of Sighs' connecting the buildings above New College Lane
Holywell Music Room: thought to be the world's oldest concert hall
Jesus College: once attended by T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Keble College: Victorian High Gothic style and Holman Hunt's famous painting of Christ 'The Light of the World'
Lincoln College: founded in 1427, with a beautiful 17th century chapel
Magdalen College: set in 40-hectare grounds with formal gardens and walks alongside the water meadows
Merton College: with many buildings surviving from the 13th and 14th centuries
Modern Art Oxford: a total contrast to the historic colleges, with its contemporary art exhibitions
Museum of the History of Science: with a fascinating collection of clocks and scientific instruments
Museum of Oxford: with the history of the city, right through from prehistoric times
New College: much older than it sounds with many 14th century buildings
Oriel College: with its beautiful Jacobean Front Quad
Pembroke College: where Samuel Johnson studied before compiling the first English dictionary
Pitt Rivers Museum: with its world class collection of ethnological and archaeological artefacts
Queens College: with its impressive Front Quad and Chapel
Radcliffe Camera: James Gibbs' famous circular classical building - the principal reading room of the Bodleian Library
St Edmund Hall: one of Oxford's oldest educational establishments
St John's College: with its magnificent baroque Canterbury Quad and spacious gardens
Sheldonian Theatre: the first architectural scheme by Sir Christopher Wren (while he was Professor of Astronomy at Wadham College)
Trinity College: with its wonderful gardens
University College: founded in 1249, which claims to be Oxford's oldest college
University Museum: with its internationally renowned collection of natural history
Wadham College: where eminent scientists met to found the Royal Society
Worcester College: with its impressive 18th century classical buildings
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