THE PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

The Pitt Rivers Museum displays the world’s great collections of archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford, England. The museum can only be accessed through the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and The Pitt Rivers Museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

The artifact collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum along with audio recordings and manuscripts is complemented by an equally large and important collection of fieldwork and other photographs. The objects in the museum are arranged not by time, but rather by type or region and include phenomenal objects of ritual significance, everyday domestic objects, plus objects made for tourists or trade. In 1844, Lt-General Augustus Pitt Rivers founded the Pitt Rivers Museum, he was the one who donated his collection to the University of Oxford with the condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed.

The museum staff is involved in teaching Archaeology and Anthropology at the University even today. Get to see weapons, musical instruments, masks, jewelry, textiles, tools, and more from different times by different peoples across the globe. These precious products could only be found here, that is why it is one of the classic places to go in oxford.

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Highlights

• Venture to one of Oxford's most famed attractions to look into the collections of period atmosphere and outstanding collections from several cultures across the globe, past and present.
• Discover the collections from all corners of the globe, and all periods in human history, including great cultural treasures, and tens of thousands of everyday objects which illustrate the distinction of cultural solutions to the similar basic problems that we all face as human beings.
• You would be awestruck to see those ancient objects present in the Pitt Rivers Museum and it is one of the most magical places to visit in Oxford.