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Museums Daniel Schaffer


 * Christopher Wren**
 * Born**: Wiltshire, 20 October 1632
 * Education**: he was in Westminster School (collage) before going to Oxford (where the Ashmolean Museum was built).
 * Interesting facts**
 * 1) he is the only surviving son of Christopher Wren DD.
 * 2) The first thing that he designed was the chapel of Pembroke College in Cambridge which his uncle asked him to design.
 * 3) One of his friends was **Robert Hooke.** Robert Hooke is one of **Sir Isaac Newton**’s rivals.
 * 4) some of his other achievements are in magnetism, medical, mathematics, and architecture
 * 5) on his tombstone it said: “Underneath lies buried Christopher Wren, the builder of this church and city; who lived beyond the age of ninety years, not for himself, but for the public good.--Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you.--He died on the 25th of February, 1723, aged 91.” (known as are one of the most famous epitaphs of all time)


 * Museum:** Ashmolean Museum
 * Designed/built in:** 1678-1683
 * Designed by:** Christopher Wren

The Ashmolean Museum is known as the first museum in the world. It was small and quite detailed. Quite recently the museum has had some renovations and was finished in 2007. It was simply made to put old scientific tools in. The tool where donated by Elias Ashmole.

Wren was asked to design. One year before, Elias Ashmole donated a large collection of many things. It was simply made to house Elias Ashmole’s collection. The collection included rare coins, the last Dodo bird ever seen (stuffed) and many other things. Sadly, by 1755 the Dodo was moth eaten and was destroyed except for its head and a claw.

This museum is important because it is the first one. It was something that people never saw before. It set what a museum is. It allowed other museums to be made because people know what it is. This also allowed the public to see the things the where not seen by the public.