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The Pitt Rivers Museum

Paperback • 2015 • English

The Pitt Rivers Museum

By Michael O'Hanlon

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About the book

"My favorite museum in the world!" This is what many visitors say about the Pitt Rivers Museum, with its atmospheric galleries, showing artifacts from all corners of the world, uniquely arranged according to the objects' different functions. But who was General Pitt-Rivers, who donated the founding collection, and how did the museum come to have so distinctive an appearance? Its displays may look unchanged since Victorian times, but they are actually the outcome of a lively history, curatorial a...Show more

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9781857599114

Publisher

Scala Arts Heritage Publishers Ltd

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

The Pitt Rivers Museum

Format

Paperback

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