Oxford: The City of Dreaming Spires
Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9th century an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years. Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hi-tech community. Many businesses are located in and around the town, whether on one of the Science and Business Parks or within one of a number of residential areas.
With its mix of ancient and modern, there is plenty for both the tourist and resident to do. Whether its visiting one of the many historic buildings, colleges or museums, going out for a drink or a meal, taking in a show or shopping till you drop, Oxford has it all.
Oxford has its fair share of excellent museums. The Ashmolean Museum is its most famous, with collections of historic artworks and artefacts from China, India, Rome, ancient Greece and Egypt, but other underrated highlights include the rather charming Story Museum — great for families — and the History of Science Museum. The latter has a blackboard used by Albert Einstein on display, a Roman sundial and the only surviving complete example of a spherical astrolabe.
Their application does not work. The iOS and Android versions are not working. It seems like those apps had been developed many years before, nobody is supported now. There are some QR-codes that link to the site which is not available as well.Highly not to recommend to visit.
Oxford Museum of Science: The brass science measurement instruments in the museum are truly impressive, and the world's technology level has been so high hundreds of years ago. Figure 5 The world's first automatic computer.
This museum is the first museum in the world to have a clear purpose to open, of course, the exhibition is the development and achievements of the history of science and technology, covering the development of science and technology from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
Britain is the originator of experimental science, and Oxford's Museum of Science History is one of its symbols, where some physical exhibits of early experimental science can be seen.
The Oxford Museum of Science History is located in an ancient building completed in 1683 and is the site of the Ashmore Museum. The museum was founded in 1924. It has a dual mission to study both the history of science and the development of Western culture and collections.
The Museum of History of Science has free wifi. Like most museums in Oxford, it has an application that downloads audio guides and interactive augmented reality functions. The Museum has more than three floors, grouping projects according to different scientific fields and research, and a free exhibition dedicated to bio-art.
The Oxford Museum of History of Science, built in the 17th century near the Bodleian Library, is a place of worship for students of science and engineering. Here are Einstein's blackboard and some interesting exhibitions on science. It's absolutely curious and worth visiting.