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The Oxford University Museum of History also known as the Oxford University Museum or OUMNH is a museum in the university that displays the natural history's specimens relating to the University of Oxford. It is located on the Parks Road in the city. A lecture theatre is also housed in the museum which is usually used by the university departments of mathematics, chemistry and zoology. The museum comprises of a large court, square in shape with a roof of glass and standing with the support of iron pillars. The specimens are of great attraction for the people who hold an interest in science. One of the major attractions is the Dinosaur Gallery. A working entomology laboratory is also housed within the museum on its first floor. The other exhibits include specimens from mineralogy, zoology, geology, mathematics, chemistry, experimental physics, geometry, astronomy, anatomy, medicine, and physiology.

The Oxford Castle is one of the major attractions of the city which is enormous and has been ruined partially and belongs to the Norman Medieval age. The castle was originally made of moated wooden motte and bailey but the renovated castle was converted into stone. The castle was partially destroyed during the English Civil War and the surviving building of the castle was transformed into the local prison of the city. Another new prison complex was also built nearby. In 1996, the prison was closed and instead a hotel was redeveloped at the same spot. The crypt and tower of St. George's housed inside the building are considered Grade I buildings.

The Ashmolean Museum is the first university museum in the entire world. A number of galleries are housed in the museum which is highly attractive and fascinating. Some of its major attractions include the drawings by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso's paintings, the Alfred Jewel, the Daisy Linda Ward, a huge collection of Poise rings, the Parian Marble, the Kish Tablet, the Minoan Collection, the Abingdon sword, the Narmer Macehead, the Scorpion Macehead, the Metrological Relief, the Messiah Stradivarius violin, the statue of Sobek, The Mantle of Chief Powhatan, A coin of Domitianus II, the Egyptian Mummy Portrait, A self-portrait by Samuel Palmer and much more. The main exhibits that add to the museum's glory include Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, Raphael: The Drawings, Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France, Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Storms, War and Shipwrecks: Treasures from the Sicilian Seas, Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection, Elizabeth Price: A Restoration, Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto, Great British Drawings, An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, artist in the age of Jane Austen, The Eye of the Needle: English Embroideries from the Feller Collection, Love Bites: Caricatures by James Gillray, William Blake: Apprentice and Master and many more.

The Pitt Rivers Museum is named after its founder Lt-General Augustus Pitt Rivers who was the one to donate all his collections to the University of Oxford. Some of the most fascinating and greatest collection of archaeology and anthropology are housed in the collections and galleries that form the museum's exhibits. The museum receives almost 480,663 visitors every year. Almost 500,000 items are housed in the exhibits whereas originally the donation by Pitt Rivers included 22,000 items only. A lot of objects in the museum are on display which is changed periodically.

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the Oxford University and also one of the oldest in Europe. There are almost 12 million items in the library including books, postcards, journals, magazines, documents, paper works, sound and music recordings, maps, prints, manuscripts, drawings and much more. It is one of the top legal deposit libraries as well. Some of the treasures of the Bodleian Library include the Ashmole manuscripts, the Carte manuscripts, the Douce manuscripts, the Laud manuscripts, the letters of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Codes Bodley, the Codex Ebnerianus, the Codex Laudianus, the Codex Laud, the Codex Mendoza, the Codex Tischendorfianus III, the Codex Tischendorfianus IV and many more.

The Christ Church also called as 'The House' and translated to the house or temple of Christ is a constituent college within the Oxford University's umbrella. The college is huge and has great architecture. The center tower named as the Tom Tower is quite tall and the Tom Quad are the major attractions in the city. A number of class's halls and cathedrals are housed in the college.