Oxford Attractions

The Old Curiosity (Shop) Museum

Advantages: Fascinating collection, creatively displayed
Disadvantages: Challenges your ideas of how a museum should display things

The Pitt Rivers Museum is a treasure chest of the weird and wonderful and should be a compulsory must-see place for every tourist visiting Oxford but sadly, it rarely is. Consequently those of us who know and love this quirky little museum are sometimes t ...

koshkha 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Shrunken heads and Ivory!

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...I lived in Oxford for several and one of the most fascinating places I visited during that time has to be the Pitt Rivers museum. The Pitt Rivers museum is internationally famous for its anthropology and world archaeology. The museum was founded in 188 ...

anwar 24.09.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

A Case for Glass Cases

Advantages: Eclectic. Interesting. Friendly staff. Free
Disadvantages: Dark, odd, information labels hard to read.

Many museums, these days have bells and whistles. They have buttons to push, interactive displays with which to, well, interact and programmes galore to entice youngsters to learn. Other museums are resolutely Victorian, with dusty display cases and dusty ...

mattygroves 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Memories.....

Advantages: Its free! Educational, interesting, strange and amazing!
Disadvantages: You would need at least a good few hours to notice everything in it!!

...Many a weekend have I spent traipsing around Pitt Rivers museum. I must have been at least 3 times with my primary school, twice in secondary, once with my uncle from Australia and more recently with my Art coursework. All will be explained later!! You c ...

nadiawalton 02.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

An oasis of calm in a busy city

Advantages: I quiet place in a city where it can be hard to find a peaceful spot
Disadvantages: It's not Kew Gardens

Was it ever really like that? Looking back on my student days it seemed like the weather was always sunny, the jokes were always funny, the food tasted better (which is definitely not true) and the British obsession with gardening meant that Oxford wa ...

koshkha 06.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of University Of Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford