16 October – 16 November 2020 Photography and Women An online exhibition of photographs from the Museum's collection specially selected by staff as part of the Photo Oxford Festival. Online Exhibition
4 June – 24 November 2019 Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis This display highlighted the work of Ellen Ettlinger (1902–1994), a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime, and who settled in Oxford. Archive Case (First Floor)
27 April – 29 November 2019 Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond This exhibition reassembled material and visual culture that survives from the Calais ‘Jungle’ as it existed from March 2015 to the demolitions of 2016. 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 This display presented a selection of material from the Pitt Rivers Museum’s R. G. Woodthorpe collection, much of which has never before been on public view. Archive Case (First Floor)
15 October 2018 – 11 March 2019 Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action, 1910–1957 This exhibition focused on six of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s most important female collectors and their fieldwork carried out between 1910 and the late 1950s. Special Exhibition Gallery
13 October 2018 – 30 May 2019 Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma The Tibetan photographer Nyema Droma, taking inspiration from the Museum’s historic collections, created portraits of other young Tibetans that celebrate their experience and challenge stereotypes. Installation in Court & Long Gallery
21 April – 28 September 2018 Kwibuka Rwanda Commemorative practices of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Long Gallery
17 February – 23 September 2018 Sunil Shah: Uganda Stories ‘Uganda Stories’ by Sunil Shah was both a subjective journey to recollect the past and a study in photography’s documentary potential to reassemble history. Special Exhibition Gallery
13 November 2017 – 8 April 2018 Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity This exhibition presented a selection of photographs showing Marshal Josip Broz Tito taken during official visits to various African countries in the post-war period. Long Gallery
15 June 2017 – 9 December 2018 Syrians Unknown Identity Without Borders Case Installation (Upper Gallery)
15 May – 29 October 2017 Camel: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes – Photographs by Roger Chapman This exhibition presented sixty-five monochrome prints by Roger Chapman from his major international photography project premiered at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Long Gallery
1 November 2016 – 30 April 2017 Embroidered Visions: Photographs of Central Asia and the Middle East by Sheila Paine This exhibition presented a selection of photographs taken by textile expert Sheila Paine during her travels in Central Asia and the Middle East in the late 1980s and 1990s. Long Gallery
18 July – 4 December 2016 Chapman’s Northern Lights: Arctic Skies, Rolling Seas, Changing Landscapes This display presented a selection of original prints taken during the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition to Greenland in 1930–31. Archive Case (First Floor)
12 July – 16 October 2016 Kabuki: On Stage, Behind the Scenes This exhibition presented a selection of photographs by Akio Kushida and Stephanie Berger on kabuki theatre, the popular Japanese style of drama established around 400 years ago that still thrives today. Long Gallery
18 March – 29 May 2016 Elizabeth Price: A PROCESSION ‘A Procession’ was the companion exhibition to the Ashmolean’s installation ‘A Restoration’, by the celebrated contemporary artist Elizabeth Price. 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 This display presented twenty-six mounted albumen prints by the Burton Brothers studio of Dunedin, New Zealand. Archive Case (First Floor)
20 October 2014 – 3 May 2015 Scarred/Sacred Water: Tanya Harnett This exhibition presented six large photographic works by Canadian First Nations artist Tanya Harnett. Long Gallery
9 June – 28 September 2014 Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum This display presented a selection of historic images – including photographs, drawings and published material – relating to the Haida totem pole on display 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 Looking at the transatlantic slave trade and contemporary migration, photographers Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax examined migration in West Africa in this photographic exhibition. Long Gallery
8 October 2013 – 27 April 2014 Surviving Tsunami: Photographs in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake This exhibition presented visual material from a volunteer-led project in Japan to salvage and conserve historic photograph collections after two museums and a library in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, were destroyed in the 2011 tsunami. Long Gallery
29 April – 1 September 2013 Travels in Finland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Ethnographic Collection of Sir Arthur Evans This display presented a selection of twenty-three drawings, sketches and photographs by the archaeologist Sir Arthur J. Evans (1851–1941). Archive Case (First Floor)
23 February – 8 September 2013 Andrea Stultiens: The Kaddu Wasswa Archive A photographic memoir of the life of Kaddu Wasswa, born in 1933 in Ngangwa Village, near Mukono Town, Uganda. His story gives an insight into twentieth-century Ugandan history. Long Gallery
26 June 2012 – 6 January 2013 Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own Leading contemporary Aboriginal artist Christian Thompson presented a ground-breaking new body of work, consisting of eight large photographic self-portraits and a video installation. Long Gallery
16 April – 2 September 2012 Reading the Ruins: Alfred Maudslay and the Maya Site of Quirigua, Guatemala This display presented ten mounted prints by Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931), known as the father of Mesoamerican archaeology, alongside related material concerning his pioneering work during the early 1880s at the Maya site of Quirigua. Archive Case (First Floor)
