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Image Description: View from inside the Pitt Rivers Museum I confess, in full acceptance that I am playing into the History Student Stereotype, to feeling absolutely at home in a museum. Many times over this year of lockdowns I have found myself craving the familiar comfort of their echoey rooms. Last term especially, weaving out […]
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The Pitt Rivers’ famous collection of shrunken heads could be taken down from display following discussions between the Amazon’s Shuar people and museum representatives. The group indigenous to modern-day Ecuador and Peru has expressed dissatisfaction with how the items have been presented and visitors have raised concerns over the museum’s current use of the collection. […]
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Oxford University is set to distance itself from its colonialist past amid fears that its international reputation is being tarnished by movements such as “Rhodes Must Fall” and criticism that it admits too few black students. The university will start to tackle its controversial legacy by including more Asian and black students on degree courses, […]
Continue ReadingThis weekend the Pitt Rivers Museum’s most recent special exhibition, Surviving Tsunami, has closed. The exhibition featured visual material from an on-going conservation project in Rikuzentakata, in northern Japan, where the 2011 Tsunami destroyed two museums and a library. These libraries had held valuable photographs documenting life in the Tohoku region of Japan over the last century. […]
Continue ReadingThursday 4th Week (May 16th), 7:00pm Poetry Reading Blackwell’s plays host to Alan Jenkins and John Fuller, reading from their most recent poetry collections. FREE Until Friday 6th Week (May 31st), Office hours A Life in Shadows Head over to Wolfson college to view photographer Francesca Phillips’ most recent collection. FREE Thursday, Friday, Saturday 4th […]
Continue ReadingThursday 2nd Week onwards In Reverse: Where the Future Meets the Past Students from the Royal College of Art present imagined histories of obscure objects at the Pitt Rivers. FREE Sunday 3d Week onwards Romance of Dereliction The OVADA gallery (near Park End, google it) brings together a series of works inspired by the […]
Continue ReadingOxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum has received a grant of £76,654 to document some of its founder’s earliest archaeological collections. The grant, awarded by the Arts Council England’s Designation Development Fund, will mean that roughly 7,500 prehistoric artefacts from General Pitt-Rivers’ collections can be studied for the first time. The artefacts come from sites across the UK, including […]
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