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Museum · South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum is a University of Oxford museum of objects, photographs and manuscripts from all over the world, on South Parks Road, Oxford; visitors enter it through the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Why go

The Pitt Rivers Museum, founded in 1884 according to its About page, holds more than 500,000 objects, photographs and manuscripts from all over the world, displayed by type rather than by time or region. The museum's visit page says visitor entry is through the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Parks Road, where the Pitt Rivers door is reached past the dinosaurs and left at the statue of Darwin; this record is the Pitt Rivers Museum, not the natural history museum it is entered through. The same page says booking is required for all group visits, that personal photography is welcome but tripods need written permission, and that food and drink are not permitted in the galleries. The page also posts changes to opening times, so check it before going.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, England, where the University of Oxford's museums, libraries and botanic garden stand. XTOUR maps the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums, the Bodleian Old Library, the Radcliffe Camera, Christ Church Cathedral and Oxford Botanic Garden in the city; Blenheim Palace at Woodstock is reached from Oxford and is not part of it.

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