Past exhibitions
Available Digitally
Blow-Up in Bissau: Photography and Museum Revival in West Africa
Long Gallery
Available Digitally
Memoirs in My Suitcase
Archive Case (First Floor)
4 June – 24 November 2019
Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
Archive Case (First Floor)
27 April – 29 November 2019
Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond
Special Exhibition Gallery & Long Gallery
12 November 2018 – 19 May 2019
Surveying the Nagas: Visual Representations of India’s Northern Hill-Tribes in the R. G. Woodthorpe Collection
Archive Case (First Floor)
15 October 2018 – 11 March 2019
Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action, 1910–1957
Special Exhibition Gallery
13 October 2018 – 30 May 2019
Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma
Installation in Court & Long Gallery
21 April – 28 September 2018
Kwibuka Rwanda
Long Gallery
17 February – 23 September 2018
Sunil Shah: Uganda Stories
Special Exhibition Gallery
13 November 2017 – 8 April 2018
Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity
Long Gallery
15 June 2017 – 9 December 2018
Syrians Unknown
Case Installation (Upper Gallery)
15 May – 29 October 2017
Camel: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes – Photographs by Roger Chapman
Long Gallery
1 November 2016 – 30 April 2017
Embroidered Visions: Photographs of Central Asia and the Middle East by Sheila Paine
Long Gallery
18 July – 4 December 2016
Chapman’s Northern Lights: Arctic Skies, Rolling Seas, Changing Landscapes
Archive Case (First Floor)
12 July – 16 October 2016
Kabuki: On Stage, Behind the Scenes
Long Gallery
18 March – 29 May 2016
Elizabeth Price: A PROCESSION
Long Gallery
30 November 2015 – 6 March 2016
Burton Bros. of Dunedin: Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji by a Late Nineteenth-Century Commercial Studio
Archive Case (First Floor)
20 October 2014 – 3 May 2015
Scarred/Sacred Water: Tanya Harnett
Long Gallery
9 June – 28 September 2014
Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Archive Case (First Floor)
12 May – 7 September 2014
Points of Departure: Photographs from Senegal by Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax
Long Gallery
8 October 2013 – 27 April 2014
Surviving Tsunami: Photographs in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Long Gallery
29 April – 1 September 2013
Travels in Finland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Ethnographic Collection of Sir Arthur Evans
Archive Case (First Floor)
23 February – 8 September 2013
Andrea Stultiens: The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Long Gallery