When did the Ashmolean Museum open to the public?

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Gallery room at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, with framed portraits and group paintings on the walls and a bench in the center of the wood floor. — museum Interior of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Ashmolean Museum, recognized as the oldest public museum of art, archaeology, and natural history in Great Britain, opened to the public in 1683.1