Ninety-five years ago this March the University of Oxford passed a decree to accept Lewis Evans’ donation of scientific instruments and books. This marked the foundation of our Museum, which opened to the public in 1925.
We’ve collected together photographs of the Museum from 1924 to the start of 2000.
A history through photographs
Click on an image to see it full size.
Get in touch
If you’ve got photographs of the Museum from the 1900s we would love to see them! You can email us at info@mhs.ox.ac.uk or share them with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using @HSMOxford.
Explore more
- Discover the Geometry of War exhibition online
- Read Gunther’s 1925 Country Life article about the Museum
- Visit the Museum