中文导读 牛津大学于2026年10月介绍，新落成的馆藏教学与研究中心（Collections Teaching and Research Centre）位于 Reuben College 地下，整合阿什莫林博物馆、科学史博物馆、自然史博物馆与皮特·里弗斯博物馆约850万件藏品的保存、保护、研究与教学空间。本文说明实物教学如何补充导师制、开放式观察如何让更多学生参与，以及学生艺术史社团的一次上手体验。
正文 Oxford University announced this month that a new Collections Teaching and Research Centre has opened beneath Reuben College . The purpose-built space brings together storage conservation research and teaching rooms for objects from four museums : the Ashmolean , the History of Science Museum , the Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum . Together those museums hold about 8.5 million objects . For the first time , pieces that once sat in separate buildings can share the same teaching table .
本段译文 牛津大学本月宣布，新的馆藏教学与研究中心已在 Reuben College 地下启用。这座专门建造的空间汇集保存、保护、研究与教学用房，服务阿什莫林博物馆、科学史博物馆、自然史博物馆和皮特·里弗斯博物馆的藏品。四馆合计约有850万件物品。此前分属不同建筑的展品，如今第一次可以放在同一张教学桌上。
Jim Harris , Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean for fourteen years , says the centre creates new chances for interdisciplinary classes . Students of English , History , Law , Archaeology , Geography and Refugee Studies already visit museum rooms once or twice a term . Now tutors can place objects from different collections side by side and ask students to notice links that institutional walls used to hide
本段译文 在阿什莫林担任教学策展人十四年的 Jim Harris 表示，该中心为跨学科课程创造了新机会。英文、历史、法律、考古、地理与难民研究等专业的学生，本来每学期就会去博物馆教室一两次。现在导师可以把不同馆藏的物品并排放在一起，让学生发现过去被机构边界挡住的联系。
Harris argues that nothing replaces meeting an object in person . Scratches , dents , inscriptions , materials and even the sound of a lid closing become evidence . In small groups he asks each student to report one observable fact before anyone offers an interpretation . Because the first questions focus on what anyone can see , more voices can join . He calls this a more democratic way of building knowledge , and a useful partner to Oxford’s tutorial model of careful reading and debate
本段译文 Harris 认为，没有任何方式能取代当面接触一件物品。划痕、凹痕、铭文、材质，甚至盖子合上的声音，都可以成为证据。在小组里，他先请每位学生说出一个可观察的事实，再允许任何人提出解释。因为最初的问题聚焦人人都能看见的内容，更多声音可以加入。他称之为一种更民主的知识建构方式，也是牛津以细读与讨论为核心的导师制的有益补充。
Members of the Edgar Wind Society , a student art history group , recently joined Harris for a handling session in the Ashmolean’s Western Art Print Room . Wearing gloves around a large table , they examined an eighteenth-century porcelain sculpture . Careful looking revealed it as an allegorical figure of “ Asia ,” which opened a discussion of how Britain in the 1760s pictured that continent . Lydia Green , the society’s president and a Classics undergraduate , says an object forces you to look properly before you conclude anything . A lecture can supply context , she notes , but the thing itself raises questions about materials , makers , owners and later care .
本段译文 学生艺术史社团 Edgar Wind Society 的成员最近在阿什莫林西艺版画室参加了 Harris 主持的上手观摩。他们戴着手套围坐大桌旁，仔细观看一件十八世纪瓷塑。仔细观察后发现，它是寓意“亚洲”的象征形象，由此引出关于1760年代英国如何想象该大陆的讨论。社团主席、古典学本科生 Lydia Green 说，实物会迫使你在下结论之前先认真看。她指出，讲座可以提供背景，但物品本身会引出关于材质、制作者、拥有者以及后世保管的问题。
University pages describe the centre as a hub for both physical and digital access , opening in Michaelmas Term 2026 beside the Radcliffe Science Library . Curators and conservators nearby can support teaching and student research . For undergraduates , Green says , it is exciting to be trusted with that kind of encounter . Oxford’s collections have long been a strength ; the new centre aims to make them a more regular part of everyday learning .
本段译文 大学网页将该中心描述为兼具实体与数字访问的枢纽，于2026年米迦勒学期在拉德克利夫科学图书馆旁开放。附近的策展人与修复人员可以支持教学与学生研究。Green 说，对本科生而言，被信任去经历这样的接触令人兴奋。牛津的馆藏一向是其优势；新中心旨在让它们更经常地进入日常学习。
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