YOUNG PEOPLE

A table with a finished artwork and paints and paintbrushes

CREATIVES is a group for 16-19 year olds, giving young people the unique insight into how a museum works from within.

We meet on the FIRST THURSDAY of each month from 4-6pm in the Ashmolean's Learning Studio.

Food on arrival followed by an activity.

No cost for attending. Feel free to come to as many or as few meetings as you like.

Any questions? Take a look at our FAQs

To book your place email clare.cory@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Teen Digital Takeover

Thursday 2 May, 3:45-5:30 pm

Lightning tour of some unusual objects in the galleries. Then choose objects and write some tweets / plan some Instagram images ready for Teen Digital Takeover . Your ideas and tweets will go live on the Museum’s website/ twitter feed as part of a national event in August!

Behind the scenes in the Western Art Print Room

Thursday 20 June, 3:45-5:30 pm

Visit the Western Art Print Room with Caroline Palmer, Western Art Print Room Supervisor. Get behind the scenes and experience rarely seen artworks. Bring a camera!

Artist led drawing session followed by dinner at St John's College

Thursday 4 July, 3:45 - 5:45 pm then dinner from 6:00 pm (NOTE longer time)

Explore the rarely seen Lower cast galleries of Classical Sculpture at The Ashmolean with artist Amanda Beck. Draw casts and get behind the scenes.

Followed by…. an invitation to dinner at St John’s College, Oxford University (just over the road) from 6:00 pm. Hope as many of you as possible can join us for this treat!