Press

Journalists should contact press@prm.ox.ac.uk for further details and images concerning the Museum, its collections, research projects, events and activities.

Further Press releases

Maasai Leaders visit the UK to change the way their culture is represented in museums
5 November 2018
Living Cultures Press Release 5.11.19

Pitt Rivers Museum features on Armchair Gallery app
22 Oct 2018
Armchair Gallery Press Release.pdf

Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action 1910 to 1957' Exhibition Opens
15 Oct 2018
Intrepid Women Press Release.pdf

Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma
12 Oct 2018
Beyond the Binary.pdf

National Lottery Funding for 'Beyond the Binary' Project
10 Oct 2018
Beyond the Binary.pdf

Haida Weaver Visits Ancestral Collections in UK
29 Jan 2018
Haida Weaver Press Release (29.1.18).pdf

Pitt Youth Action Team present a Magical Soirée Museum Takeover
04 Oct 2017
MagicalSoireePR.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum wins Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Award
07 Jul 2017
Esmee Fairbairn PR.docx

Repatriation of Maori Ancestral Remains
25 May 2017
Repatriation Press Release.pdf

Global Heritage Project Funding Award
02 Feb 2017
Global Heritage Project Press Release.pdf

Out in Oxford
19 Jan 2017
Out In Oxford Press Release.pdf

Late Night: Hopes and Fears: Life, Death, Extinction & Invasion
04 Nov 2016
Hopes & Fears press release1.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum's Cook-Voyage Collection Redisplayed
29 Apr 2016
Cook-Voyage Collection Press Release 1.1.pdf

A PROCESSION by Elizabeth Price, The Contemporary Art Society Annual Award
14 Mar 2016
Elizabeth Price press release.pdf

Architecture for All: The Photography of Paul Oliver
13 May 2015
PRMArchitectureForAll.pdf

Tell Tales: Making Social Networks - A case display of work by RCA students
27 Mar 2015
PRMRCAPR.pdf

DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund award
27 Feb 2015
PRM Press Release27.02.1997.pdf

Containing... - A case display by Rycotewood students
22 Jan 2015
RycotewoodPR 22january2015.pdf

Scarred / Sacred Water - Tanya Harnett
06 Oct 2014
scarred sacred water.pdf

New online Image Gallery: Image/Object/Text
12 Aug 2014
new online image gallery.pdf

Distantly Relative - A case display by Royal College of Art students
30 May 2014
PRDistantlyRelative.pdf

Point of Departure: Photography from Senegal by Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax
25 Apr 2014
Point of departure.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum inspires Rycotewood students exhibition
prm inspire rycotewoood students.pdf

Curator nominates 2014 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography
14 Mar 2014
curator nominates 2014.pdf

Inventions for Living - Display case (Lower Gallery) 28 February
28 Feb 2014
PRIL.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum curator wins Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange grant
10 Feb 2014
curator wins social sciences knowledge exchange grant.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum wins DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund award
27 Feb 2015
PRMPRDCMS.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum curator's book wins major US prize
5 Jan 2014
curator wins major US book prize.pdf

Nathaniel Mann Creates Meat Cleaver Music For Residency Finale
2 Jan 2014
Nathaniel Mann creates meat cleaver music.pdf