The Pitt Rivers is a fantastic resource for exploring creativity in all its forms. This page comprehensively covers everything you need to be inspired in the museum, whether a self-guided or taught. Remember, booking is essential for all group visits.
Learn how contemporary artists explore concepts of ‘identity’ and ‘coloniality’ and engage with self-representation through finding LGBTQIA+ histories within the museum’s displays.
This is an extended version of our popular Sketchbook Introduction that supports students in their sketching or photography and allows them to engage with handling objects.
This PDF showcases some of the many artists who have been inspired by Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Some displayed their work in the Museum, some chose to display their work elsewhere, and some intervened with the museum space itself.
View our interactive digital sketchbook, for inspiration for structuring your own sketchbook visit to the Museum.
View a selection of sketchbooks inspired by Museum collections
View a selection of thematically grouped sketchbooks below, inspired by Pitt Rivers collections. Where you see 'see object record' this will link you to photographs of objects drawn in this work.
