University museum

For museums named "University Museum", see University Museum (disambiguation).

A university museum is a repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the institution of higher learning. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the building that is now the Museum of the History of Science. A more recent example is the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, established in 1882, which is now the official museum of the University of Bath.

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