Alfonso Gelateria
Cafe
City Centre
$
Authentic Italian gelato in the Covered Market.
Kid-Friendly Oxford
Oxford with kids is brilliant — dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, shrunken heads at the Pitt Rivers, Alice's Shop, punting, and pub gardens with space to run. Here's what works.
Ashmolean Museum
Recommended
Museum
City Centre
The world's first university museum — free, with major collections of art and archaeology.
Bodleian Library
Recommended
Museum
City Centre
One of the oldest libraries in Europe — the Divinity School, Duke Humfrey's Library, and the Radcliffe Camera.
G&D's
Recommended
Cafe
Jericho
$
Oxford's own ice cream since 1992 — handmade, inventive, and open past midnight.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Recommended
Museum
City Centre
Dinosaurs, dodos, and Darwin's legacy — all under a Gothic Revival iron-and-glass roof.
Pitt Rivers Museum
Recommended
Museum
City Centre
A Victorian cabinet of curiosities — shrunken heads, totem poles, and half a million objects from every culture on earth.