Have lived in Oxford for some 25 years now and whilst I have been into the University Museum on Parks Road on many occasions, never ever ventured into the celebrated Pitt Rivers Museum. This is accessed through the University Museum through a door in the rear, and although this door is large, I never found it. (I thought it was in the other side and thats my excuse and I am keeping to it)
Until yesterday.
The weather had already dampened our initial plan was to have a picnic barbecue with the wife's brothers family who were staying with us for the weekend. That changed instead to go punting when the weather was supposed to brighten up later in the afternoon (which it did) but to go into town and have a walk around. I had the bright idea of going to see the Pitt Rivers and so we made our way there around midday.
WHAT AN AMAZING PLACE.
This is a little gem of a museum displaying the contents of various artifacts taken from around the world, built around General Augustus Pitt Rivers's donated collection to the University of Oxford on the condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed. His original donation consisted of approximately 20,000 items, but has now grown to 500,000 items, many of which have been donated by travellers, scholars and missionaries.
We spent 2 hours in there but could easily have been more.
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