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Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford)
 Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) ... noon-4:30p / / The Pitt Rivers Museum is world famous for its unusual Victorian atmosphere and impressive displays of strange and beautiful objects collected all over the world by travellers, scholars, colonial officers and university students, right up to the present day. Masks, mummies, textiles and toys crowd the cases and the totem pole is three floor highs. An audio guide features Sir David Attenborough.Newest Review: ... by what I found. **Who or What was Pitt Rivers?** Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was a true Victorian eccentric and a man with a voracious appetite for collecting. As an army officer with a passion for archaeology and ethnology he travelled the world gathering goodies wherever he went. He didn't focus on any specific areas or specialise in particular countries, he ... more ... just travelled around gathering masses of 'stuff' to take home to Blighty. Pitt Rivers collected just about anything and everything that could be encompassed under the very broad umbrella of 'Ethnography'. He travelled around the world and, a bit like m...more |
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Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford): Exactly how a small eccentric museum should be (1328 words)
by - written on 13/01/09 (Very useful, 205 readings)
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I thought it was time to take a brief diversion away from my Bhutan and India holiday reviews and write about something even more exotic but a lot closer to home - The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. I am the sort of person who gets very attached to museums and even though this is a small one, it's right up in my top 10 with some of the more obvious candidates like the V&A and the British Museum. However, the Pitt Rivers isn't a museum that's particularly well known or well publicised - witness the fact that nobody has ever written about it for dooyoo. I rest my case with my tongue only slightly in my cheek - how famous can anything be if it's not be ... Read the complete review
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