Research
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If you would like to use the Museum's collections for your research, please see our pages on using our collections.
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 team
Research community
Research projects
Maasai Living Cultures
The shipwreck in a diamond mine
Featured research partnerships
Rethinking Relationships and Building Trust Around African Collections
Working with contemporary Aboriginal artists
Early Career Research Opportunities
Featured publications
Christopher Morton
Lesley McFadyen & Dan Hicks (eds)
Research videos
Christian Thompson - We Bury Our Own from Pitt Rivers Museum on Vimeo.
Carving the new Great Box: Gwaai Edenshaw and Jaalen Edenshaw at the Pitt Rivers Museum from Pitt Rivers Museum on Vimeo.