Virtual Collections

The Wilfred Thesiger Collection
Thesiger Collection Photograph

Photographs by the renowned traveller and photographer Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)

Body Art
Glass Scent Bottles

Exploring the Body Art collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Southern Sudan
Glass Scent Bottles

Detailed catalogue of the collections from Southern Sudan held at the Museum

The Tibet Album
The Tibet album

6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history

The Other Within
The Tibet album

Analysing the English collections at the Museum

Arms and Armour
Arms and armour

Explore over 200 highlights from the arms and armour collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Blackfoot shirts
The Blackfoot Shirts

These important items bring together cultural, historical, and artistic knowledge

Rethinking Pitt-Rivers
The Blackfoot Shirts

Analyzing the activities of 19th century collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

Luo Visual
History
Luo photographs

Explore around 350 historical Luo photographs

The Relational Museum
The Museum

The history of the Museum from before its foundation to the present day

The Forster Collection
Forster Collection

One of the world's great collections of 18th century Pacific art and material culture

Pacific Pathways
Pacific Pathways

A selection of electronic 'paths' through and beyond the Forster Collection web site

The Dorothy Garrod Archive
Dorothy Garrod

Images of archaeological research in present-day Israel in the early 1930s.

Lower Gallery Archive
Dorothy Garrod

Look at the photographs and descriptions of a selection of objects from the Lower Gallery.

Congo Journey
Dorothy Garrod

Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot's Expedition to Central Africa site

Shields and Objects
shields

Explore the history of anthropology & ethnography, and shields and weapons.

Artefact
artefact

Inspiration for art students, teachers and professional artists from across four museums

Basketry
basketry

Useful and decorative basketry from across the world.

Transform -ations: The Art of Recycling
artefact

A celebration of human creativity through recycling and re-use

Centre for Anthropology and Photography
artefact

Promoting the archiving of anthropological fieldwork photographs