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The Pitt Rivers Museum is a renowned centre for research on material culture, art and photography.
With strong historical links to the teaching of anthropology and archaeology in the University of Oxford, the Museum today seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore critical themes that connect people all over the world to its rich collections and the histories they hold.
Research News
Museum awarded AHRC NERC Hidden Histories funding for an innovative research project 'Activating the Archive: African environmental histories and knowledges materialised in museum collections' (PI Dr Ashley Coutu)
'The Conservation and Display of the Tahitian Mourner’s Costume at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' in M.M. Brooks and D.D. Eastop (eds.) Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2017.
Christopher Morton
Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging
'Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum', in J. Pellew and L. Goldman (eds.) Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2018. (PDF)
‘The graphicalization of description: drawing and photography in the fieldwork journals and museum work of Henry Balfour’, Anthropology and Photography, Vol. 10 (London: Royal Anthropological Institute). (PDF)
![View of the landscape around Kendu Bay, South Nyanza District, Kenya, taken by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in 1936 [1998.349.106.1]](https://prm.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/listing_breaker_image/public/prm/images/media/34e8c18e-f2f6-4657-ab78-7c655c32f15a.jpg?itok=Iy-rjbex "View of the landscape around Kendu Bay, South Nyanza District, Kenya, taken by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in 1936 [1998.349.106.1]")
![View of the landscape around Kendu Bay, South Nyanza District, Kenya, taken by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in 1936 [1998.349.106.1]](https://prm.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/listing_tile_text_displayed_image/public/prm/images/media/34e8c18e-f2f6-4657-ab78-7c655c32f15a.jpg?itok=RBDPWL01 "View of the landscape around Kendu Bay, South Nyanza District, Kenya, taken by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in 1936 [1998.349.106.1]")
