Museum of The History of Science

In the middle of Oxford is the world's oldest surviving purpose built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford.   It is now the Museum of the History of Science.  The museum is small and you need only an hour or so to see all of the exhibits.  There are many beautiful scientific instruments on display, some of which are nearly 1000 years old.  The instruments are not only ingenious but many are beautifully crafted and are, in their own way,  works of art.  It is well worth a visit.   

Some of the highlights at the museum include Albert Einstein's writing preserved on a blackboard; Lewis Carroll's and T.E. Lawrence's cameras; and Marconi's original morse code devise. 

This is Albert Einstein's actual writing on a blackboard that has been preserved since May 1931.  

This is the photographic gear that Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, used while taking photographs of Alice and her sisters.

This is the camera used by Lawrence of Arabia

Surgery instruments from the early 1800's

A drawing from 1730 that shows the museum just right of the Sheldonian.

For more information:  http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/