Pitt rivers museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum of the University of Oxford was founded in 1884 to exhibit the anthropological collections of Augustus Lane Fox PittRivers (1827–1900).

Today the Museum possesses well over half a million objects, photographs, and manuscripts from all over the world ranging in date from prehistoric times to the present day. It is also a leading international center for research in social and cultural anthropology, and the history, theory, and practice of museum curatorship.

The Pitt Rivers Museum is noteworthy for its preserving the original arrangement and display of its possessions according to Pitt-Rivers’s “typological” system of organization (Pitt-Rivers 1891, 115–116)