The Ashmolean Museum contains extensive collections of antiquities. It is especially rich in classical Greek material, in European, and in Egyptian archaeology. There is an excellent cast gallery of classical sculpture, and the Classical Art Research Centre holds photographs of vases and sculpture.
The Pitt Rivers Museum has collections of the Palaeolithic and later Prehistoric periods from many parts of the world, which can be studied in relation to comparable ethnographical material. Other museums in Oxford also hold significant collections of archaeological material.
The main archaeological library is the Sackler Library, housed in its own building adjacent to the Ashmolean Museum, whose collection of archaeological journals and books is one of the best in
the world. It has excellent coverage of Greek and Roman archaeology and of most aspects of European and Near Eastern archaeology, and is supplemented by the Balfour Library at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the small library of the Institute of Archaeology.
The Institute of Archaeology, located between the Ashmolean Museum and the Sackler Library, is the centre of much of the teaching in archaeology and houses technical facilities and common room.
The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA) provides the focus for teaching and research into archaeological science, and the Stelios Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies houses additional facilities for classical archaeology.
