this is a magical place, with astonishing collections of amazing things! You might like to look out for the shrunken heads, or discover how a S American tribe caused their children's heads to become fashionably misshapen, or what an early waterproof looked like [made from seals' intestines - looking like high fashion] Whatever you start with, your interests can't fail... More

Pitt Rivers museum houses the collection of General Pitt rivers, who insisted that his collection be kept intact and all on display. As such the museum is jam packed full of display cabinets. Notable favourites are the shrunken heads, and seal fur coats - creepy.

Loved this little museum - having visited Bishops Museum in Honolulu the structure of the building is very similar in design. Good to see some Hawaiian feather cloaks in the UK. There is so much on display its difficult to give it all your full attention in one visit. Must point out there is no admission charge.

I first went to the Pitt Rivers Museum a few years ago as a student and loved it then. I took my husband there this year while we were in Oxford - he loved it. I would highly reccommend this place to everyone. It is like nothing you have every experieinced in a museum before - There are so many... More

Upon entering, you really don't know where to look first. It is something right out of Indiana Jones! Don't miss it but set aside at least 2 hours to do the collection justice.

It's a very unusual museum - with many fascinating and inspiring things. It's not a massive place but I reckon the number of things on display exceeds..hmm..say Ashmolean (although they are not really comparable). Most of the things in there are probably not as priceless as what you normally see in big museums but they are so interesting - they... More

A great experience, well worth a visit but be prepared to walk out dizzy at the sheer number of diverse items to gaze upon. From Korean armour to Inuit seal-skin dresses and everything in between. The fact that it's free is also pretty incredible though a donation is well worth it.

There is a lot of work in progress in the natural history museum attached to Pitt Rivers which was a shame because that looked interesting. Too many objects in the cases in Pitt Rivers, hard to pick out what was interesting and what wasn't. Building itself is very impressive.

After a lovely walk in the Oxford sun we popped in to the Pitt Rivers, well worth a visit. Staff were attentive but not intrusive and were very knowledgeable. Some great artifacts, the children we saw seemed to enjoy their visit as did we.