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Photograph a work in the Pitt Rivers Museum and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Pitt Rivers Museum

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Pitt Rivers Museum walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The illustrative demo shows Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam in Vatican City. The demo and collection images illustrate Lensmark and are not Pitt Rivers Museum collection works.

What the Pitt Rivers Museum collection covers

The Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884 when General Pitt-Rivers gave his collection to the University of Oxford. Its displays arrange objects by type, bringing related objects from different cultures together. History

This page covers the Pitt Rivers galleries in Oxford, entered through the separate Museum of Natural History. Its archaeological and ethnographic collections sit alongside historic photographs, sound recordings and manuscripts.

Its collection strengths include global archaeological collections, global ethnographic collections, historic photography and sound archives, and typological displays.

  • Star House Pole

    Unknown Haida carver

    This cedar frontal post comes from Masset in Haida Gwaii. Raised before Chief Anetlas' Star House, its carved motifs relate to ancestral beings and lineage; it was installed in Oxford in 1901.

    Read the museum record

  • Witch in a Bottle

    Unknown English maker

    This silvered glass bottle carries a story about a captive witch. Collected in Hove, Sussex, in 1915, it is recorded as PRM 1926.6.1; the museum treats the tale as a story, not an established event.

    Read the museum record

  • Ahuʻula Hawaiian Feather Cloak

    Unknown Hawaiian maker

    Red and yellow feathers cover an olona-fibre netting base. The museum's teaching notes trace this cloak to Chiefess Kekauluohi's 1842 gift for Frances Ramsay Simpson; that is a gift date, not a creation date.

    Find it in the museum collection

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Pitt Rivers Museum permits photography for private, noncommercial use; camera tripods require written permission from the museum. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Pitt Rivers Museum photography policy

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