In Oxford, the Pitt Rivers Museum - founded with the collection of a Victorian general, Augustus Pitt Rivers - holds about 2,000 such specimens. These body parts were brought back to Britain from ...

Somewhere behind the scenes at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, Marenka Thompson-Odlum is rummaging through a medium-sized plastic box. The box contains labels from display cases that have recently ...

A collection of shrunken heads has been removed from a museum linked to Oxford University as part of what it refers to as its decolonization process. The Pitt Rivers Museum has been closed for ...

Museums have long served as repositories for the spoils of colonialism—and the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum is no exception. Now, amid global protests against systemic racism ...

Founded in 1884, Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum now houses more than half a million artifacts – and it’s ever expanding. Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, an influential figure in the ...

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is reconsidering its display of shrunken heads, which are currently shown in a case labelled Treatment of Dead Enemies. These human heads with skin and hair ...

The artist is having two new shows at Modern Art Oxford and the Pitt Rivers Museum. Still from the video ‘The Witch Ladder,’ Marina Abramović, 2022. Copyright ...

Maasai families in Kenya and Tanzania whose heirlooms are on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford have received a “symbolic gift of cows” as part of a project aimed at building ...