TWO of Oxford’s most popular museums will reopen after a six-month closure due to coronavirus.
The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Natural History, both on Parks Road, will welcome visitors again on September 22.
They will be open from 10am until 5pm every day.
Entry to the museums is free but all visitors will need to prebook a timed ticket.
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It will give access to both, which share an entrance. Visitors can still spend as long as they like viewing the exhibits.
Due to space restrictions, the upper floors of both museums will remain closed.
The cafe inside the Museum of Natural History will also stay shut but hot drinks and cakes will be available at the Horsebox Coffee Company on the museum lawn.
Dr Laura Van Broekhoven, Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, said: “I am delighted we can now open our doors again and welcome our much-missed audiences.
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"I look forward to seeing the museum come alive while visitors wander around enthused, inspired and surprised by the Pitt Rivers’ unique space that holds a world within.”
Professor Paul Smith, Director of the Museum of Natural History, added: “Our building has been eerily quiet and empty for a long while now, so we are really looking forward to seeing visitors enjoying the space and exhibits once more. "This year is our 160th anniversary and to mark that we are reopening with a temporary exhibition looking at the past and future of the Museum, ahead of exciting new permanent exhibitions that will open in 2021.”
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