Exhibitions

Ashmolean Museum (01865 278015: Tues-Sat, 10-5, Sun 2-5. Every Thursday during July and August, museum open until 8pm with talks and other events (tel 01865 288299 for further details). Gallery talks every Fri and 1.15pm. Exhibitions: until Jul 18, Glass of Four Millennia; until Sept 10, Turner's Oxford; also until Sept 10, British Townscapes. Recent purchase: A rare Chinese Bodhisattva Figure - sculpture from the late 10th century carved from a single piece of wood. Ashmolean Treasures tour every Saturday 11am. To book a place on talks and tours please telephone 01865 278015. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (01865 272950): open daily noon-5pm. Until December, Ruskin and the Oxford University Museum: Ruskin's unfinished masterpiece. Until Jul 31, Points of View - visualising insulin secretion, the work of scientist Frances Ashcroft on insulin secretion interpreted by the painter Benedict Rubbra. New permanent dinosaur and dodo exhibition.

Pitt Rivers Museum, Parks Road (01865 270927): open noon-5pm, daily. Until Sept 2001, Transformations: The Art of Recycling. Also the Joachim Schmid Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, an artist's intervention and site-specific installation. Until autumn, Collectomania! Coke cans to twizzle sticks. Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oriel Square (01865 276172): Mon-Sat 10.30-1, 2-4.30, Sun 2-4.30. Until Aug 8, Raphael to Romano. Admission free on Mondays.

Oxford Gallery, 23 High Street: Mon-Sat 10-5, until Aug 2, small dishes by Takeshi Yasuda, woodcuts by Sir Terry Frost and bowls by David Clarke.

Oxfordshire's Own Millennium Festival: see page eight in main paper for full details.

Darbys Mallam Lewis, 52 New Inn Hall Street, Oxford: until Sept 1, during office hours, an exhibition of photographs by Simon Bentley: from flower portraits to broad and atmospheric landscapes) and The Oxford Times journalist, Helen Peacocke: the glories of food.

Wolfson College (01865 274100): until Jul 3, 10-4 (tel college before visiting), watercolours by Evelyn Phelps Brown. Verandah Gallery, North Parade, Oxford: until Jul 14, Mon to Sat 10-5.30, Magie Hollingworth (papier mach), Jenifer Wall (jewellery).

Stables Gallery, Green College: 10-6, until Jul 8, photographs by Wendy Aldiss, depicting health care at the Radcliffe Infirmary.

24th Art in Action: crafts people from around the world demonstrate and show their work at Waterperry Gardens, near Wheatley, food and wine bars, band playing, craft stalls, July 20-23, 10.30am-5.30pm, Admission 11, pensioners 8.50, students and UB40s 7.50, children 9-17 5.50. 020 7381 3192.

Bartholomew Room, Eynsham: daily 10-4, Sun 2.30-4.30, until Jul 16, Eynsham Arts Group. Oxfordshire Museum, Fletchers House, Woodstock: until Sept 10, About Time. In association with the Ashmolean Museum and exhibition for the new millennium. Shows how attitudes towards time have changed throughout the years, how time can be measured, and how we mark the passage of time.

The Gallery, Bampton Town Hall: Jul 9-23, new work by Nigel Plumb.

Oxfordshire Craft Shop, Chipping Norton (01608 641525): during July, craftsperson of the month is Sidney Hardwick, potter.

Potato Town Gallery, Great Tew Estate: until Jul 9, furniture by John Callen and Keith Lobben with paintings by Pam Franklin. 01608 683323.

Wallingford School of Art and Art History (01491 838855): Thurs, Fri and Sat 1-5, Sun 2-5, Jul 8-Aug 6, paintings by Ron Freeborn. Green Gallery, Elsfield: open 10-5 Sat and Sun every week until Aug 13, outdoor work by 13 artists with conservation theme. 01865 351771.

Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage: until Jul 9, Sacred Landscapes.

Henley River and Rowing Museum: until Oct 15, Golden Oars: rowing at the Olympic Games.