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Pitt Rivers Museum

Please note that face coverings are mandatory for all visitors unless exempt.

Booking is only required for educational and commercial groups. Find more information on group booking here.

Upcoming Events

See what's coming up in our exciting programme of events, exhibitions and displays.

Virtual Tour

Wander the galleries with a virtual visit to the Museum.

Rainbow letters spelling Hope projected onto dark front of Museum of Natural History

Radical Hope, Critical Change

Join us to reimagine museum practice.

Double portrait of Kesang Ball in modern and traditional dress

Online Exhibitions

Discover our past exhibitions through images and videos.

View from above of colourful textiles being laid out on table

Online Collections

Browse the object and photograph collections online.

Objects in the 'Messy Realities' project

Research

Find out about some of the exciting research projects going on behind the scenes.

Museum Donation Box with carved wooden figures

Please make a donation to support the work of the Museum

Donate here

South Sudanese diaspora community members at PRM

Exploring our South Sudanese Identity at the Pitt Rivers Museum

"Museums are custodians and bearers of people's memories, histories and culture."

A film by South Sudanese diaspora members from the UK exploring the Pitt Rivers Museum’s objects and photographs and what they mean for community members today.

Watch here

'The place itself evokes the enormity and enormous variety of human experience'

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