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Pitt Rivers Museum
A dim, crowded treasure-cave of objects from around the world, in glass cases stacked to the ceiling.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PPDirections
- Getting There
- Through the Museum of Natural History.
Why Go
Reached through the back of the Natural History museum, the collection of more than half a million objects, from masks and canoes to musical instruments, is arranged by type rather than by place, as it was in Victorian times.
Nearby in Oxford
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