Pitt Rivers Museum
Classic Oxford Museum
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Contact:
Pitt Rivers MuseumSouth Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP
United Kingdom
The Pitt Rivers Museum holds an extraordinary collection of eccentric artefacts, which has as its basis the collection of one Lt.-General Pitt Rivers. The General, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, donated his personal collection to Oxford University in 1884, under the condition that a suitable premises be constructed for it and a lecturer in anthropology appointed. The museum continues to function as an active teaching department of the university.





















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