Advertising Oxford’s
art & history haven
The Ashmolean regularly promotes temporary exhibitions, but what about its incredible permanent collection?
THE BRIEF
With millions of potential visitors identified as relatively unaware of its permanent collection, the Ashmolean needed a new way to articulate its value. The mission was to celebrate but also consolidate the breadth on offer.
Takes You Back
a unifying message
As an antidote to overwhelm, we distilled the collection’s overarching value; its ability to take you back. This message could be flavoured differently for different facets of the collection, without having to ever fundamentally change.
Bravo Paulo
enjoying stories
Museums have no reason to sound dull. We worked closely with the Ashmolean’s curators to pen a series of fun-but-true stories celebrating collection highlights, supported with freshly shot images literally ‘taking readers back’ to the stagings of the various times and places at play.
