The museum was founded in 1884 by Augustus Pitt Rivers - a follower of Darwinism & a collector to outrank all others. The organization of around 50,000 items has remained based on the unusual science of "typology" invented by Rivers - as in they are arranged into "types" of things.
You'll find instruments, weapons, clothing – anything you can think of – displayed side by side from different cultures & times.
It’s the place with the notorious shrunken heads that inspired a scene in Harry Potter; a place where you can find Yorkshire funeral biscuits next to Chinese burial headdresses. You start to realize, this is not your average collection.
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Photo Credit: Top to Bottom & Left to Right: “Pitt Rivers Museum” is copyright (c) 2010 Andrew Sides and made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) License, “The Pitt Rivers Museum” is copyright (c) 2015 Michael Brace and made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) License