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Britain's Great Museums - The Ashmolean
Built in 17th Century Oxford to house Elias Ashmole's vast collection of antiquities, coins, books, Chinese lanterns and the last dodo seen in Europe, the Ashmolean is the world's first public museum.
Presented by Malcolm Billings
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